Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

What object does the youth employ to shape the skulls employed in the game?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: employ, shape · To what, where: skulls, game

This is exam question 3 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 shape	mark
8	shape	shape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skulls	det
10	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shape	obj
11	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 skulls	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 game	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 game	det
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	employ	present · do-support	what object			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	shape	to-infinitive	what object not said here	the skulls		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skull=Product
3	employ	participle		the skulls not said here	the game	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 iron hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hammer	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hammer	compound
3	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a lathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lathe	det
2	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the turning lathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lathe	det
2	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lathe	compound
3	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a sharp carving knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	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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