Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Ashputtel: the golden slipper, the fa…

State the reason given by the father for refusing that Ashputtel should attend the prince at the final trial.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ashputtel · What happens: give, refuse, not attend · To what, where: State reason, prince, final trial

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reason	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reason	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 refusing	mark
9	refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 given	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 attend	mark
11	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 attend	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 attend	aux
13	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refusing	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attend	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 trial	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trial	det
18	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trial	amod
19	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attend	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	participle		the State reason not said here			by the father	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	refuse	gerund						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not attend	should	Ashputtel		the prince	the final trial		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prince=Goal

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

She was too dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dirty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dirty	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dirty	advmod
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					dirty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was too dirty to be presented

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dirty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dirty	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dirty	advmod
4	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 presented	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 presented	aux:pass
7	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dirty	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					dirty property	tree rules
2	present	to-infinitive · passive	She not said here						vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

She was too young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					young property	tree rules

Option 4

She had to stay and mind the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mind	cc
6	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mind	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	She		tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mind	infinitive	She not said here	the house	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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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