Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…

What sentence did the King pronounce upon his youngest Son?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sentence, King · What happens: do, pronounce

This is exam question 3 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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	sentence	sentence	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	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pronounce	nsubj
6	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Son	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Son	nmod:poss
9	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 Son	amod
10	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pronounce	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	sentence						tree rules
2	pronounce	present	the King					upon King's youngest Son	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

that he be secretly shot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 shot	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shot	nsubj:pass
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 shot	aux:pass
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	5 shot	advmod
5	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	infinitive · passive		he				secretly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

death by fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		fire						nom death «event intransitive»: by=agent

Option 3

to be hanged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 hanged	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 hanged	aux:pass
3	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	to-infinitive · passive							tree rules

Option 4

to be exiled forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 exiled	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 exiled	aux:pass
3	exiled	exile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 exiled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	to-infinitive · passive						forever property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»

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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