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

What did the hero do with the ring in the castle chamber?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero · What happens: do · To what, where: hero

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hero	det
4	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hero	acl:relcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 ring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 chamber	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chamber	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chamber	compound
12	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hero				with the ring in the castle chamber	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Eventuality
2	do	present	the hero not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

He dropped it into the goblet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 goblet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goblet	det
6	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	He	it		the goblet			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into goblet=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He placed it on the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	He	it		the table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination

Option 3

He tossed it at the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	nsubj
2	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tossed	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	He	it				at the king	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at king=Destination

Option 4

He dropped it gently into the goblet of wine on the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	2 dropped	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 goblet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goblet	det
7	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wine	case
9	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goblet	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	He	it		the goblet of wine		on the table; gently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into goblet=Destination on table=Initial_Location

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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