Exam question 1 · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…
Which of the following describes the place in which the girl was discovered by the royal huntsmen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: royal huntsmen · What happens: follow, describe, discover · To what, where: place, girl
This is exam question 1 of lesson 787 «Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the king's heart with three dresses» 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 | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 describes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 describes | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 5 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describes | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 discovered | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 discovered | aux:pass |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 huntsmen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 huntsmen | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 huntsmen | amod |
| 17 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 discovered | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 describes | 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 | describe | present | the place | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | discover | past · passive | the royal huntsmen | the girl | the place | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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
A hollow tree in a large wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wood | amod |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A hollow tree in a large wood near the palace gates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wood | amod |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 gates | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gates | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gates | compound |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A hollow tree deep in a large wood where the huntsmen were hunting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | nsubj |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 8 wood | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wood | amod |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 hunting | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 huntsmen | det |
| 11 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hunting | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hunting | aux |
| 13 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 wood | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | the huntsmen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A ditch by a small road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ditch | det |
| 2 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 road | amod |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ditch | nmod |
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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