Exam question 3 · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

Upon what condition did Jegu agree to reward the brownie?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jegu · What happens: agree, reward · To what, where: brownie

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agree	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 agree	aux
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 agree	nsubj
6	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reward	mark
8	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 agree	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brownie	det
10	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reward	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past · do-support	Jegu					upon condition	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reward not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jegu not said here		the brownie				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brownie=Recipient

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

that his soul be excepted from any reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 excepted	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 soul	nmod:poss
3	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excepted	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 excepted	aux:pass
5	excepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 reward	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 reward	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	infinitive · passive		his soul		any reward			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from reward=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

that his soul be excepted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 excepted	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 soul	nmod:poss
3	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excepted	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 excepted	aux:pass
5	excepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	infinitive · passive		his soul					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that he keep his horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 keep	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horses	nmod:poss
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive	he	his horses					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

Option 4

that he pay with money but keep his soul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 pay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	nsubj
3	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pay	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pay	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 soul	nmod:poss
9	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	he					with money	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	he not said here	his soul					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme

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