Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

What did the king decide regarding the hand of the princess?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, decide, regard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decide	nsubj
5	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hand	det
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 decide	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	decide	present	the king	regard the hand of the princess	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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

The youngest must marry her now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 marry	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	must	the youngest	her = she			now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Neither brother should marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	should	neither brother	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3

Only the thief should marry her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 thief	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	should	the thief	her = she					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Neither could wed her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	3 wed	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wed	aux
3	wed	wed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	could		her = she				neither property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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