Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

What was the principal obstacle preventing the man from reaching the princess upon the glass mountain?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal obstacle · What happens: be, prevent, reach · To what, where: man, princess

This is exam question 3 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 obstacle	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 obstacle	amod
5	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	preventing	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 obstacle	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preventing	obj
9	from	from	SCONJ	_	10 reaching	mark
10	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 preventing	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaching	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 mountain	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mountain	det
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mountain	compound
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reaching	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal obstacle			tree rules
2	prevent	gerund	the principal obstacle not said here	the man		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer man=Theme
3	reach	gerund	the principal obstacle not said here	the princess	upon the glass mountain	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent princess=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

The slippery sides of the mountain and the giant's guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sides	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sides	amod
3	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sides	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 guards	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guards	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 giant	case
11	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sides	conj

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

Option 2

The thick fog over the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fog	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fog	amod
3	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 valley	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 valley	det
6	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fog	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The slippery sides of the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sides	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sides	amod
3	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sides	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The slippery sides of the mountain that no man could climb without a rope and a long, patient rest

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sides	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sides	amod
3	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sides	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 climb	obj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climb	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 climb	aux
11	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mountain	acl:relcl
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 rope	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 rope	det
14	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climb	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rest	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rest	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rest	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 long	punct
19	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rest	amod
20	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rope	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	could	no man	the mountain				without a rope and a long patient rest	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme

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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