Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…
Pursuant to the text, which individual is responsible for setting Heinel adrift in the open boat?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: individual · What happens: be, set · To what, where: Heinel, open boat
This is exam question 1 of lesson 777 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Heinel is set adrift, wins magic gifts, and finds his queen about to remarry» 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 | Pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 4 text | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 text | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 text | det |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 responsible | punct |
| 6 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 7 individual | det |
| 7 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 responsible | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 responsible | cop |
| 9 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 text | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 setting | mark |
| 11 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 responsible | advcl |
| 12 | Heinel | Heinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 setting | obj |
| 13 | adrift | adrift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 setting | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 boat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boat | amod |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 setting | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 text | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which individual | responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | gerund | which individual not said here | Heinel | the open boat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent heinel=Theme adrift=Destination |
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
His uncle, the village tailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tailor | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tailor | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tailor | compound |
| 6 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uncle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
His father, a cruel old farmer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 farmer | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 farmer | det |
| 5 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farmer | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 farmer | amod |
| 7 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
His own father, the merchant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 merchant | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 father | conj |
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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