Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…

Which of the following did the father purchase at considerable expense?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow

This is exam question 1 of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 purchase	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 purchase	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purchase	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 purchase	case
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 purchase	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 purchase	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purchase	compound
8	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 expense	case
10	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 expense	amod
11	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 purchase	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 purchase	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 painting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a costly jewel set in a golden frame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jewel	det
2	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jewel	amod
3	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 jewel	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 frame	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frame	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frame	amod
8	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	participle		a costly jewel not said here		a golden frame			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in frame=Destination

Option 4

a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	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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