Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…
How many persons were weeping in the cellar upon the bridegroom's arrival?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many persons, bridegroom · What happens: weep, arrive
This is exam question 4 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 persons | amod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weeping | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weeping | aux |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeping | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 arrival | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridegroom | det |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 bridegroom | case |
| 13 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeping | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past · progressive | many persons | upon the bridegroom's arrival; in the cellar | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cellar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | the bridegroom | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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
Five persons and the maid, who had come down first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 persons | nummod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 maid | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maid | det |
| 5 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 persons | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 persons | acl |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past · perfect | Five persons and the maid | down, first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Four persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 persons | nummod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Five persons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 persons | nummod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five persons, all weeping loudly on the cellar floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 persons | nummod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 persons | acl |
| 6 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 floor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 floor | det |
| 9 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 floor | compound |
| 10 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeping | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | Five persons not said here | the cellar floor | loudly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
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