Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, part 2: a cloak, a…

Who responded to the goose’s crowd by requesting a man who could drink a cellarful of wine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: respond, request, drink · To what, where: man, cellarful

This is exam question 3 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 responded	nsubj
2	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goose	det
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crowd	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 goose	case
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 responded	obl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 requesting	mark
9	requesting	request	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 responded	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requesting	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 drink	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 drink	aux
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 man	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cellarful	det
16	cellarful	cellarful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drink	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 wine	case
18	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cellarful	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 responded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	respond speech: other	past				to the goose's crowd	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to crowd=Theme
2	request	gerund			a man		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	drink	could	a man	a cellarful of wine			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellarful=Patient

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

Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The parson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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