Exam question 3 · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki…

Which condition did the physician set for his payment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, pay · To what, where: physician set

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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	Which	which	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	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 payment	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 payment	nmod:poss
9	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which condition	the physician set				for condition's payment	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Eventuality
2	pay		condition						nom payment «possession transitive»: poss=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

He received a horse as payment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 received	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 payment	case
6	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 received	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	He	a horse				as payment	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 2

He accepted only the agreed sum and refused any gift the king offered later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sum	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sum	det
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sum	amod
6	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 refused	cc
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accepted	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 gift	det
10	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offered	nsubj
13	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accepted	parataxis
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 offered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	He	the agreed sum		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	participle				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	refuse	past	He not said here	any gift		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme
4	offer	past	the king		late property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He wanted the king's crown instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crown	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the king's crown				instead property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme
2	crown		the king						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He accepted only the agreed sum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accepted	nsubj
2	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 sum	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sum	det
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sum	amod
6	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accepted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	He	the agreed sum					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	participle							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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