Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…
Identify the item that the girl placed in the king's soup on the first occasion.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, place · To what, where: item, girl, soup
This is exam question 2 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 item | det |
| 3 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 girl | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 item | appos |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 girl | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 soup | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soup | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 occasion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 occasion | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 occasion | amod |
| 16 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | 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 item | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | the girl not said here | the king's soup | on the first occasion | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on occasion=Destination |
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
A tiny silver ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | compound |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A small golden ring from her finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 finger | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A little golden locket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 locket | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 locket | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 locket | amod |
| 4 | locket | locket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A small golden ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 4 | ring | ring | 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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