Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

Who was the first person to meet the merchant on his return home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person · What happens: be, meet, return · To what, where: first person, merchant, return

This is exam question 3 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 person	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 person	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 person	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 return	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 return	nmod:poss
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
13	home	home	ADV	_	7 meet	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 person	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the first person			tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive		the merchant	person's return	home property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Co-Agent
3	return		person				nom return «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

The old servant who had watched the house for many years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 watched	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watched	aux
6	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 servant	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect	the old servant	the house			year		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 2

Lily, his youngest daughter, who was waiting at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lily	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 waiting	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waiting	aux
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 daughter	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	Lily's youngest daughter			the gate			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

Option 3

Ruth, his eldest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruth	Ruth	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ruth	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lily, his youngest daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daughter	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lily	appos

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

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