Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

What reward does the gardener's son finally request from the restored King?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reward · What happens: do, request, restore · To what, where: son

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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 reward	det
2	reward	reward	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 gardener	det
5	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 gardener	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 request	advmod
9	request	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 King	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
12	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 King	amod
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 request	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	what reward	the gardener's son		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
2	request	present	what reward not said here		from the restored King; finally property	vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	restore	participle				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

The bronze crown granting all wishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crown	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	granting	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 crown	acl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wishes	det
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 granting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	gerund	the bronze crown not said here	all wishes					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The bronze ring granting all wishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	granting	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ring	acl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wishes	det
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 granting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	gerund	the bronze ring not said here	all wishes					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme

Option 3

The bronze ring granting all wishes and a palace of his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	granting	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ring	acl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wishes	det
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 granting	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 palace	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wishes	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 own	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 own	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 palace	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	gerund	the bronze ring not said here	all wishes and a palace of his own					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme

Option 4

A purse of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 purse	det
2	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purse	nmod

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

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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