Exam question 1 · Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf drowns and the dwar…

Which of the following creatures, having been spared by the youngest brother, was instrumental in locating the key that was lost at the bottom of the lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest brother · What happens: follow, spare, be, locate, lose · To what, where: following creatures, key, bottom

This is exam question 1 of lesson 762 «Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf drowns and the dwarf wins the three tasks» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 creatures	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 creatures	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creatures	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 creatures	amod
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spared	punct
7	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 spared	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 spared	aux:pass
9	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 creatures	acl:relcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 brother	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brother	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 brother	amod
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 instrumental	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 instrumental	cop
16	instrumental	instrumental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creatures	conj
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	18 locating	mark
18	locating	locate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 instrumental	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 key	det
20	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 locating	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lost	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux:pass
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 key	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 bottom	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bottom	det
26	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 lake	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lake	det
29	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bottom	nmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 creatures	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spare	gerund · perfect · passive	the youngest brother	the following creatures not said here			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				instrumental property	tree rules
4	locate	gerund		the key			tree rules
5	lose	past · passive		the key	the bottom of the lake		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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

The goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ducks	det
2	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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