Exam question 4 · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

What terms did the vanquished monarch accept at the conclusion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: terms · What happens: do, vanquish, accept · To what, where: vanquished monarch, conclusion

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 accept	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monarch	det
5	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 monarch	amod
6	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 conclusion	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 conclusion	det
10	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accept	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 accept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	terms	the vanquished monarch		tree rules
2	vanquish	participle				tree rules
3	accept	present			the conclusion	vn obtain-13.5.2 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Cessation of war and a large payment of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 war	case
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cessation	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 payment	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 payment	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 payment	amod
7	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cessation	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 money	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 payment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease			war					nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient
2	pay			money					nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Surrender of land and gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 land	case
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surrender	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gold	cc
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surrender	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surrender			land					nom surrender «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cessation of war and payment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cessation	cessation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 war	case
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cessation	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 payment	cc
5	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cessation	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease			war					nom cessation «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Return of all the prisoners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 prisoners	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 prisoners	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prisoners	det
5	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		all prisoners						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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