Exam question 4 · Gutenberg 3282, Kisa the Cat, Kisa rescues Ingibjorg from…

What penalty did the giant state he would impose upon Ingibjorg, in the event that she should return to the forest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: penalty, Ingibjorg · What happens: do, impose, return · To what, where: giant state, event, forest

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1245 «Gutenberg 3282, Kisa the Cat, Kisa rescues Ingibjorg from the giant and claims her reward» 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	penalty	penalty	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 state	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 state	amod
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 impose	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 impose	aux
9	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 state	acl:relcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 Ingibjorg	case
11	Ingibjorg	Ingibjorg	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 impose	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 event	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 event	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 event	det
15	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 return	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 event	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 return	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	penalty	the giant state			tree rules
2	impose	would	penalty	the giant state not said here		upon Ingibjorg	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Theme
3	return	should	Ingibjorg	the event not said here	the forest		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent event=Theme to forest=Destination

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

He would take her back

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 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	He	her back					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He would kill her there

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 kill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	aux
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 kill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	He	her = she		there			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

He would kill her there in the forest and bury her body under the old oak tree

The tree, 17 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 kill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	aux
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 kill	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kill	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bury	cc
10	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kill	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 body	nmod:poss
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bury	obj
13	under	under	ADP	_	17 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
16	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bury	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	He	her = she		the forest; there			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	bury	infinitive	He not said here	her body		the old oak tree			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme under tree=Destination

Option 4

He would cut off her hands and then leave her to die in the cold forest

The tree, 16 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 cut	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leave	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 leave	advmod
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 die	mark
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 leave	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forest	amod
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	would	He	her hands			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality
2	leave	infinitive	He not said here	her = she	then		tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive	her = she not said here			in the cold forest	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute

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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