Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

State the principal reason that the old fox pretended to be dead beneath the bench.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old fox · What happens: pretend, be · To what, where: State principal reason

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reason	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pretended	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fox	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fox	amod
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pretended	nsubj
9	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 dead	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pretended	advcl
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 bench	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bench	det
15	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pretended	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the old fox	the State principal reason				beneath the bench	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	the old fox not said here					dead property	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

To test the fidelity of his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fidelity	det
4	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fidelity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		the fidelity of his wife					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme

Option 2

To hide from the huntsman's dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 huntsman	det
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dogs	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 huntsman	case
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive						from the huntsman's dogs	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from dog=Beneficiary

Option 3

To test the loyalty of his wife and the cat both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 test	mark
2	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 loyalty	det
4	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 test	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loyalty	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cat	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
11	both	both	ADV	_	2 test	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		the loyalty of his wife and the cat				both property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Theme

Option 4

To determine the fidelity of his wife before the wedding feast began

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 determine	mark
2	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fidelity	det
4	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determine	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fidelity	nmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	11 feast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feast	compound
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determine	obl
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	to-infinitive		the fidelity of his wife			before the wedding feast		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Topic
2	begin	past							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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