Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose Girl, part 1: a princess…
Determine the name of the lad to whom the true princess was assigned as an attendant in the king's meadow.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, assign, name · To what, where: name, true princess, lad, meadow
This is exam question 4 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 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lad | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 assigned | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princess | amod |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assigned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 assigned | aux:pass |
| 13 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lad | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 attendant | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 attendant | det |
| 16 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assigned | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 meadow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meadow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assigned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the name of the lad | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | assign | past · passive | the true princess | the lad | the king's meadow | as a attendant | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to whom=Goal | ||
| 3 | name | the lad | nom name «communication 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
the young lad named Curdken who herds the geese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lad | acl |
| 5 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 named | xcomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 herds | nsubj |
| 7 | herds | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lad | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 geese | det |
| 9 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 herds | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | the young lad not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | herd | present | the young lad | the geese | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goose=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Curdken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Heinrich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heinrich | Heinrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Curdken the goose-herd's son from the village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curdken | Curdken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 herd | det |
| 3 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 herd | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 goose | punct |
| 5 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 herd | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
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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