Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the fa…

Identify the item that the prince took from the staircase at the close of the second night of the feast.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: identify, take · To what, where: item, staircase

This is exam question 2 of lesson 760 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the false brides and the white dove's song» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 took	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 staircase	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 staircase	det
10	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 close	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 close	det
13	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 night	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 night	amod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 close	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 feast	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feast	det
20	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the item					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	take	past	the prince			the staircase		at the close of the second night of the feast	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent from staircase=Source at close=Asset

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

The left golden slipper from the staircase, which fit her foot perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slipper	det
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
4	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fit	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 staircase	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 staircase	det
7	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slipper	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fit	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fit	nsubj
10	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fit	obj
13	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	10 fit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	past	the left golden slipper from the staircase	her foot				perfectly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 2

The right golden slipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slipper	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
4	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The left golden slipper that she had lost on the stairs as she ran away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slipper	det
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
4	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lost	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lost	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 slipper	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 stairs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stairs	det
11	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 ran	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	she	the left golden slipper not said here		the stairs			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Eventuality
2	run away	past	she					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The left golden slipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slipper	det
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slipper	amod
4	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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