Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

What condition was attached to the aforementioned object?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: attach · To what, where: condition

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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	4 attached	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attached	aux:pass
4	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 object	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 object	det
7	aforementioned	aforementioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 object	amod
8	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attached	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · passive		what condition				to the aforementioned object	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to object=Co-Patient

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 he must never lend it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 lend	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lend	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lend	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 lend	advmod
5	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lend	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 lend	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lend out	must	That	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That he must keep it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 keep	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	That	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That it should never be allowed to fall from his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 allowed	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 allowed	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	aux:pass
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fall	mark
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 allowed	xcomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	should · passive		That					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	fall not said to happen	to-infinitive	That not said here			his hand			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location

Option 4

That it stay close to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stay	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	infinitive	That					close property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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