Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Mountain, part 53: Hei…

According to the passage, by what method does the queen's mother-in-law identify her son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: method, law · What happens: accord, do, identify · To what, where: mother, son

This is exam question 3 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 passage	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 passage	conj
8	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 queen	case
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 law	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 law	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 in	punct
17	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 identify	nsubj
18	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 mother	acl:relcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 identify	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 passage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	method	the queen's mother	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
3	identify	infinitive	law	law's son	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent son=Theme

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 right answer

A raspberry-like mark on his right arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mark	det
2	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 raspberry	punct
4	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mark	amod
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 arm	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arm	amod
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mark	nmod

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

Option 2

A small red birthmark on his left wrist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 birthmark	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birthmark	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 birthmark	amod
4	birthmark	birthmark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 wrist	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wrist	nmod:poss
7	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wrist	amod
8	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birthmark	nmod

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

Option 3

A tiny blue scar on his right hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scar	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scar	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scar	amod
4	scar	scar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 hand	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scar	nmod

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

Option 4

A raspberry-like mark on his right arm and the silver ring on his finger

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	5 mark	det
2	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 raspberry	punct
4	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mark	amod
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 arm	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arm	amod
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mark	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ring	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
12	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ring	amod
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arm	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 finger	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 finger	nmod:poss
16	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ring	nmod

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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