Exam question 4 · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

What object did Snow-white employ to free the dwarf from the entrapment of the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, entrap · To what, where: white employ, entrapment, tree

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	obl
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Snow	punct
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 employ	amod
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 free	mark
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dwarf	amod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dwarf	det
11	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl:unmarked
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 entrapment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 entrapment	det
14	entrapment	entrapment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entrapment	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	white employ		the entrapment of the tree		the free dwarf obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	entrap			the tree					nom entrapment «act transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

A knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Her scissors

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 scissors	nmod:poss
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

A small saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 saw	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	amod
3	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The hazel switch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 switch	det
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switch	compound
3	switch	switch	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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