Exam question 3 · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

What was the boy's principal objection to the horse's attendance at the feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal objection, boy, horse · What happens: be, object, attend · To what, where: feast

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 objection	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 objection	amod
7	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 attendance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attendance	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 horse	case
12	attendance	attendance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 objection	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 feast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feast	det
15	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attendance	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the boy's principal objection to the horse's attendance at the feast			tree rules
2	object		the boy		to the horse's attendance at the feast	nom objection «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl
3	attend		the horse	the feast		nom attendance «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place

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

that he would be forced to carry the miller's heavy sacks every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 forced	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forced	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 forced	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 forced	aux:pass
5	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forced	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sacks	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 miller	case
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sacks	amod
12	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 carry	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	would · passive		he					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	carry	to-infinitive	he not said here	the miller's heavy sacks			day		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme

Option 2

that he would eat their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 eat	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	he	their food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that he would be bound to serve them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 bound	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bound	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bound	cop
5	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 serve	mark
7	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bound	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 serve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	he					bound property	tree rules
2	serve	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute

Option 4

that he would steal the cherries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 steal	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 steal	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 steal	aux
4	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cherries	det
6	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	would	he	the cherries					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cherry=Theme

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