Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister save…

What condition did the enchantress impose upon the husband in exchange for the rampion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose · To what, where: exchange

This is exam question 3 of lesson 121 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers from the fire, and Rapunzel begins» 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	6 impose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 enchantress	det
5	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 husband	det
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 exchange	case
11	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 rampion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rampion	det
14	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exchange	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	past · do-support	what condition			exchange for the rampion		upon the husband	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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

He must surrender the child his wife would bear, the very first one born

The tree, 14 words

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	3 surrender	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 surrender	aux
3	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surrender	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bear	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bear	aux
9	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 child	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 first	advmod
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surrender	obl
15	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 one	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	surrender	must	He	the child	the first one obl	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	bear	would	child's wife	the child not said here		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	bear	participle		the first one not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He must give up the gold from the royal vault

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	3 give	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 vault	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vault	det
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vault	amod
10	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	must	He	the gold		the royal vault			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He must surrender the child his wife would bear

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	3 surrender	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 surrender	aux
3	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surrender	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bear	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bear	aux
9	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 surrender	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surrender	must	He	the child					vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	bear	would	child's wife						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He must give a child

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	3 give	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	must	He		a child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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