Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

What, according to the fairy, is required of Eliza in order that her brothers may be released?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eliza, order · What happens: accord, require, release · To what, where: fairy, order, brothers

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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	9 required	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 What	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fairy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 according	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 required	aux:pass
9	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Eliza	case
11	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 required	obl:agent
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 order	case
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 required	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 released	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 released	nsubj:pass
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 released	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 released	aux:pass
19	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 order	acl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 required	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	accord	gerund			the fairy		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to fairy=Goal
2	require	present · passive	Eliza			order	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Precondition
3	release	may · passive	order not said here	Eliza's brothers			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

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

Gold coins from the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	nmod

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

Option 2

Silence and patience only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 patience	cc
3	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Silence	conj
4	only	only	ADV	_	1 Silence	advmod

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

Option 3

Prayer and faith, together with the gold coins hidden beneath the old oak in the forest

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 faith	cc
3	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prayer	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coins	punct
5	together	together	ADV	_	9 coins	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 coins	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coins	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coins	compound
9	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Prayer	conj
10	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 coins	acl
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	14 oak	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 oak	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 oak	amod
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hidden	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 oak	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		the gold coins not said here		the old oak in the forest			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath oak=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Courage and perseverance, together with the nettles gathered from churchyard graves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gathered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 perseverance	cc
3	perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Courage	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gathered	punct
5	together	together	ADV	_	9 gathered	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 nettles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nettles	det
8	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	obl
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 graves	case
11	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 graves	compound
12	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	Courage and perseverance			churchyard graves		with the nettles; together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from grave=Source

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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