Exam question 1 · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

Which pair of sisters is introduced at the opening of the cottage episode?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: introduce · To what, where: pair, opening

This is exam question 1 of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 pair	det
2	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 introduced	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sisters	case
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pair	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 introduced	aux:pass
6	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 opening	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 opening	det
9	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 introduced	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 episode	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 episode	det
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 episode	compound
13	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opening	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 introduced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	introduce	present · passive		which pair of sisters		the opening of the cottage episode			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Snow-white and Rose-red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 white	obl
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Snow	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 red	cc
5	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 red	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Rose	punct
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sisters	nummod
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Fair-haired Snow and Rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Snow	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Fair	punct
3	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Snow	amod
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Rose	cc
6	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Snow	conj

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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