Exam question 2 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…
With reference to the passage, what is the principal object that the giants surrender to Heinel for trial?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage, giants · What happens: be, surrender · To what, where: principal object, Heinel
This is exam question 2 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passage | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 passage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 passage | det |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 object | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 object | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 object | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 object | det |
| 10 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 object | amod |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passage | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 surrender | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giants | det |
| 14 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surrender | nsubj |
| 15 | surrender | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 object | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Heinel | case |
| 17 | Heinel | Heinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 surrender | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 trial | case |
| 19 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrender | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 passage | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the passage and the principal object | the principal object | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | surrender | present | the giants | Heinel | for trial | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heinel=Recipient |
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
A cloak, a shield and a golden horn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shield | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shield | det |
| 5 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 horn | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 horn | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horn | amod |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A sword, a cloak and a pair of boots
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 |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cloak | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pair | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sword, a cloak, a pair of boots and a golden ring worth a fortune
The tree, 15 words
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 |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cloak | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pair | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ring | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ring | amod |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 15 | worth | worth | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 fortune | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fortune | det |
| 17 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A sword, a cloak and a pair of boots, along with all their gold and their horses
The tree, 17 words
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 |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cloak | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pair | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pair | det |
| 8 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boots | case |
| 10 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pair | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gold | punct |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 gold | det:predet |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gold | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 horses | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sword | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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