Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen: the false huntsm…

Which event precipitated the disclosure of the bride's true identity?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: event · What happens: precipitate, disclose · To what, where: disclosure, true identity

This is exam question 4 of lesson 776 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen: the false huntsmen are unmasked and the king weds his true bride» 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 event	det
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precipitated	nsubj
3	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 disclosure	det
5	disclosure	disclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 precipitated	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 identity	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bride	det
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 identity	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bride	case
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 identity	amod
11	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disclosure	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 precipitated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	precipitate	past	which event	the disclosure of the bride's true identity					tree rules
2	disclose			the bride's true identity					nom disclosure «communication transitive»: of=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

The lion's confession before the court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confession	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lion	case
4	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confession	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confess		the lion				before the court		nom confession «communication transitive»: poss=agent before=obl

Option 2

The arrival of the king's messenger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arrival	det
2	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 messenger	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 messenger	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrival	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive		the king's messenger						nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fainting of the bride upon hearing of the new union

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fainting	det
2	fainting	fainting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fainting	nmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 hearing	case
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bride	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 union	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 union	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 union	amod
11	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear		the new union						nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The hunt that the king ordered at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunt	det
2	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 ordered	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ordered	nsubj
6	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hunt	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ordered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	participle	the king	the hunt not said here			dawn		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme

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