Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…
Identify the individual who secured the release of the seven ravens from their enchanted state.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, individual · What happens: identify, secure, enchant · To what, where: individual, release, enchanted state
This is exam question 1 of lesson 779 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister frees her ravens, Mrs Fox tests her suitors, and a huntsman gets a magic cloak» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 individual | det |
| 3 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 secured | nsubj |
| 5 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 individual | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 release | det |
| 7 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ravens | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ravens | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 ravens | nummod |
| 11 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 release | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 state | nmod:poss |
| 14 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 state | amod |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the individual | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent individual=Theme | ||||
| 2 | secure | past | the individual | the release of the seven ravens | ravens's enchanted state | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent release=Theme from state=Source | |||
| 3 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
The younger sister of the seven ravens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sister | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ravens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ravens | det |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ravens | nummod |
| 7 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sister | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sister | det |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Their youngest sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The seventh raven's younger sibling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 raven | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 raven | amod |
| 3 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sibling | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 raven | case |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 sibling | amod |
| 6 | sibling | sibling | 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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