Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, Cat-skin: a girl in a fur coat wins the kin…
Indicate the garment that the king removed from the girl before she revealed herself.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king, girl · What happens: indicate, remove, reveal · To what, where: garment, girl
This is exam question 4 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 | Indicate | indicate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garment | det |
| 3 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Indicate | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 removed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 removed | nsubj |
| 7 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 garment | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 removed | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 revealed | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 revealed | nsubj |
| 13 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Indicate | advcl |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 revealed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indicate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | imperative | you not said here | the garment | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot garment=Topic | ||||
| 2 | remove | participle | the king | the garment not said here | from the girl | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Theme from girl=Source | |||
| 3 | reveal | past | girl | girl | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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 · ← Mova's choice
The grey gown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gown | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gown | amod |
| 3 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Her shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The hood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hood | det |
| 2 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The fur cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 2 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloak | compound |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | 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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