Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

Upon finding the company weeping, what did the bridegroom ultimately decide to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: company weeping · What happens: find, do, decide · To what, where: company weeping, bridegroom

This is exam question 3 of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 finding	mark
2	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 decide	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weeping	det
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weeping	compound
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 finding	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 weeping	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bridegroom	det
10	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	8 did	advmod
12	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decide	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		the company weeping		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weeping=Topic
2	do	past	the company weeping	the bridegroom	ultimately property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Eventuality
3	decide	present				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Take Elsie home and feed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feed	cc
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	Elsie					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elsie=Theme home=Destination
2	feed	infinitive	you not said here		Elsie				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 2

Lead Elsie upstairs and wed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lead	obj
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	1 Lead	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wed	cc
5	wed	w	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Lead	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	imperative	you not said here	Elsie				upstairs property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elsie=Theme
2	w	past	you not said here	Elsie					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Take Elsie upstairs and marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 marry	cc
5	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here		Elsie			upstairs property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elsie=Destination
2	marry	infinitive	you not said here	Elsie					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

Take Elsie upstairs, kiss her, and marry her in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kiss	punct
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kiss	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 marry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 marry	cc
9	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 marry	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here		Elsie		upstairs property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elsie=Destination
2	kiss	infinitive	you not said here	Elsie				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	marry	infinitive	you not said here	Elsie		the hall		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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