Exam question 1 · Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair

Which of the following was the boy forbidden to allow into the gold well?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, forbid, allow · To what, where: boy, gold

This is exam question 1 of lesson 785 «Grimm, Iron Hans, part 61: the gold well and the golden hair» 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 boy	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 boy	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boy	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 boy	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 allow	mark
10	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forbidden	xcomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 gold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allow	obl
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 allow	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past			follow the boy	tree rules
3	forbid	participle	the boy not said here			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
4	allow	to-infinitive		the gold	well property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 · ✓ the right answer

any foreign object whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 object	det
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 object	amod
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	3 object	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

any leaf, twig, or wet stone that the wind might blow into the water

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 leaf	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 twig	punct
4	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaf	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 stone	cc
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaf	appos
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 blow	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blow	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 blow	aux
13	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stone	acl:relcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	might	the wind	wet stone		the water			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into water=Product

Option 3

dust from the forest floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floor	compound
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dust	nmod

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

Option 4

any stone or leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 leaf	cc
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stone	conj

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

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