Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…

In formal terms, what did the knight swear regarding his own rest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight · What happens: swear, regard · To what, where: formal terms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1263 «Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the castle» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 terms	case
2	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 terms	amod
3	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 swear	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swear	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 swear	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 swear	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swear	nsubj
9	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 rest	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rest	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rest	amod
13	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swear	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 swear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · do-support	the knight			formal terms		regard knight's own rest	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

He would not sleep in a bed while his work remained

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	4 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 remained	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 work	nmod:poss
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remained	nsubj
11	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not sleep	would	He	a bed	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	remain	past	his work		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	work		his = he		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He would not eat or drink

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	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 drink	cc
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would	He						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	infinitive	He not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He would not rest until the witch was defeated

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	4 rest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rest	advmod
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 defeated	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 defeated	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 defeated	aux:pass
9	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rest	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rest	would	He						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	defeat	past · passive		the witch					tree rules

Option 4

He would not sleep at all

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	4 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sleep	advmod
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	would	He			all			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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