Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…

Identify the object which the mother of the princess bestowed upon her daughter as a protective charm prior to departure.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, object · What happens: identify, mother, bestow · To what, where: object, princess

This is exam question 1 of lesson 98 «Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess is tricked by her maid on the road and loses her horse and her place» 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 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 mother	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 object	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 princess	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod
10	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 princess	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 daughter	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bestowed	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 charm	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 charm	det
16	protective	protective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 charm	amod
17	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bestowed	obl
18	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 departure	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 prior	fixed
20	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 charm	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	mother		the object		of the princess	tree rules
3	bestow	participle		the princess not said here	upon princess's daughter; as a protective charm prior departure	tree rules

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 right answer

a lock of her own hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lock	det
2	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hair	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lock	nmod

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

Option 2

a lock of golden thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lock	det
2	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 thread	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thread	amod
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lock	nmod

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

Option 3

a lock of her own hair wrapped in a silk cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lock	det
2	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hair	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lock	nmod
7	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hair	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cloth	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cloth	det
10	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloth	compound
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		her own hair not said here		a silk cloth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloth=Destination

Option 4

a small silver 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	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 locket	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locket	compound
4	locket	locket	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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