Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets…
Which of the following identifies the object which the morning star bestows upon the girl in order to effect her brothers' release?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: morning star · What happens: follow, be, bestow · To what, where: object, effect
This is exam question 4 of lesson 778 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, part 1: a girl sets out to free her seven brothers, who were turned into ravens» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 object | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 object | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 object | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 object | case |
| 5 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 object | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 object | det |
| 7 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bestows | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 star | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 star | compound |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bestows | nsubj |
| 12 | bestows | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 object | acl:relcl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bestows | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 effect | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 in | fixed |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 effect | mark |
| 19 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bestows | obl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 release | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 23 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 effect | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 object | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the object | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bestow | present | the morning star | the object | effect star's brothers's release | upon the girl | tree rules |
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 small piece of wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a little golden ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a piece of wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wood | case |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a tiny glass bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bottle | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bottle | compound |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | 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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