Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

In what location did the bird perform its song prior to the events at the threshold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: perform, sing · To what, where: song, threshold

This is exam question 3 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 perform	obl
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 perform	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	nsubj
7	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 song	nmod:poss
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	obj
10	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 events	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 prior	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 events	det
13	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 perform	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 threshold	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 threshold	det
16	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 perform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · do-support	the bird	bird's song		the threshold		prior the events	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
2	sing		bird						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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

high up in the old juniper-tree near the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 up	advmod
2	up	up	ADV	_	8 tree	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tree	amod
6	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 juniper	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod

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

Option 2

in the willow-tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 willow	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

in the juniper-tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 juniper	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in the dark juniper-tree beside the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
4	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 juniper	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nmod

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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