Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…

Which relative was observed to weep continuously during the family meal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: observe, weep · To what, where: relative

This is exam question 4 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 relative	det
2	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 observed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 observed	aux:pass
4	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 observed	xcomp
7	continuously	continuously	ADV	_	6 weep	advmod
8	during	during	ADP	_	11 meal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meal	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meal	compound
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weep	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 observed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	past · passive		which relative					tree rules
2	weep	to-infinitive					during the family meal	continuously property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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

the stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

little Marleen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Marleen	amod
2	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	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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