Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Pero…

What condition does the giant impose upon the king's son in exchange for the return of the castle to the bundle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, castle · What happens: do, impose, return · To what, where: giant, exchange

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1321 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 46: Peronnik saves Nantes with the magic bowl, then a king's son wins a bundle and a giant's bargain» 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	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 does	obj
6	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 giant	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 son	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 exchange	case
13	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 return	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 return	det
16	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exchange	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 castle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 return	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 bundle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bundle	det
22	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 castle	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	what condition	the giant			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality
2	impose	infinitive	what condition not said here		exchange for the return of the castle to the bundle	upon the king's son	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	return		the castle to the bundle				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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 eldest son of the giant at ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giant	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 giant	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 ten	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 giant	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A grown man's life after one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 life	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 year	nummod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 life	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

His firstborn son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
2	firstborn	firstborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The first boy born to him at age seven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boy	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 born	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 age	case
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 born	obl
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 age	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	participle		the first boy not said here	boy		at age		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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