Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

Which object did the hero use to become invisible during his encounter with the robbers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, hero · What happens: use, become, encounter

This is exam question 1 of lesson 773 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a stick and a horse free the maiden, then Dummling's goose gathers a crowd» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 become	mark
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 encounter	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 encounter	nmod:poss
12	encounter	encounter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 invisible	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 robbers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 robbers	det
15	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 encounter	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	which object		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	to-infinitive	which object not said here	invisible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	encounter		hero	with the robbers	nom encounter «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 right answer

The cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The magic cloak he got from the robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloak	amod
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 robbers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robbers	det
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the magic cloak			the robbers			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from robber=Destination

Option 3

A sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The gown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gown	det
2	gown	gown	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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