Exam question 3 · Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her wor…

What condition did the Princess set before agreeing to marry Riquet with the Tuft?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, agree, marry · To what, where: Princess set, Riquet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1087 «Perrault, Riquet with the Tuft: the princess keeps her word and marries the prince» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 agreeing	mark
8	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 agreeing	xcomp
11	Riquet	riquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Tuft	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tuft	det
14	Tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what condition	the Princess set		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Eventuality
2	agree speech: agree	gerund	what condition not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	what condition not said here	Riquet	with the Tuft	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riquet=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

That her father should give his consent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 father	det
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 consent	nmod:poss
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	should	her father	father's consent					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	consent		father						nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

That her father should give his consent and bless the match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 father	det
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 consent	nmod:poss
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bless	cc
9	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 match	det
11	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	should	her father	father's consent	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	bless	infinitive	her father not said here	the match	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme
3	consent		father		nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That her father should give his consent before any wedding plans were made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 father	det
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 consent	nmod:poss
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 plans	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plans	compound
11	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 give	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	should	her father	father's consent	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	make	past · passive		any wedding plans	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	consent		father		nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

That the King should bless the match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bless	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bless	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bless	aux
5	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 match	det
7	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bless	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	should	That	the match					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme

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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