Exam question 4 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

What property did the robbers' stick possess, according to the account given to the man?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stick · What happens: possess, accord, give · To what, where: account, man

This is exam question 4 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	3 did	obj
2	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 possess	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 robbers	det
5	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stick	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 robbers	case
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possess	nsubj
8	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 account	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 account	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 account	det
13	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possess	obl
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 account	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 man	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 possess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	possess	past · do-support	the robbers's stick			accord the account	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	give	participle		the account not said here	the man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient

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 right answer

It opened any door it touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 touched	nsubj
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 door	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	It	any door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	touch	past	door	any door not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Co-Theme

Option 2

It made the wearer invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wearer	det
4	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the wearer				invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material wearer=Product

Option 3

It turned lead into silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It	lead		silver			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lead=Theme into silver=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It made things fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	things					tree rules
2	fly	infinitive	things not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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