Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf drowns and the dwar…

Explain the outcome for the dwarf following the disenchantment of the castle, as recorded at the conclusion of the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: explain, follow, record, disenchant, conclude · To what, where: outcome, conclusion, castle, passage

This is exam question 4 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	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	9 disenchantment	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 disenchantment	det
6	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 disenchantment	amod
7	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 disenchantment	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 disenchantment	det
9	disenchantment	disenchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Explain	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disenchantment	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 recorded	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 recorded	mark
15	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Explain	acl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 conclusion	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 conclusion	det
18	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 recorded	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 passage	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 passage	det
21	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conclusion	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Explain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the outcome		for the dwarf disenchantment of the castle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic
2	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	record	participle			the conclusion of the passage		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	disenchant			the castle			nom disenchantment «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	conclude			the passage			nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

He stayed a dwarf and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dwarf	det
4	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 left	cc
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dwarf	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He					dwarf property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He married the eldest princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	He	the eldest princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He married the youngest princess and became king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 married	nsubj
2	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 married	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 married	conj
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	He	the youngest princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	become	past	He not said here	king					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He wed the middle princess and ruled the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wed	nsubj
2	wed	w	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
4	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ruled	cc
7	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	w	past	He	the middle princess					tree rules
2	rule	past	He not said here	the land					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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