Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

Which object did the bird use to bring about the death of the stepmother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, stepmother · What happens: use, bring, die

This is exam question 1 of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bring	mark
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 death	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 death	det
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 stepmother	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stepmother	det
14	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	which object		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	to-infinitive	which object not said here	about the death of the stepmother	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	die		the stepmother		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

a heavy bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bell	amod
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a millstone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 millstone	det
2	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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