Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

Concerning the giant's final instruction, what task was the Prince directed to perform?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final instruction, Prince, giant · What happens: concern, task, be, perform, instruct

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» 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	Concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 instruction	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruction	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 giant	case
5	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 instruction	amod
6	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 directed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 task	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 task	nsubj
9	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruction	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 directed	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 directed	nsubj
13	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 perform	mark
15	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 directed	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 directed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	concern	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	task		the giant's final instruction and task		tree rules
3	is	past	the Prince	concern the giant's final instruction and task; direct property	tree rules
4	perform	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	instruct		the giant		nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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

to go far beneath the earth and carry back the taxes owed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 go	advmod
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 carry	cc
8	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 carry	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 taxes	det
11	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carry	obj
12	owed	owe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 taxes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive		the earth	far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath earth=Location
2	carry back	infinitive	the taxes			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Theme
3	owe	participle	the taxes not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 2

to fetch the gold from the cellar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cellar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cellar	det
7	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		the gold		the cellar			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from cellar=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to go underground and fetch the taxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	underground	underground	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fetch	cc
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 taxes	det
7	taxes	tax	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive						underground property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fetch	infinitive		the taxes					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Theme

Option 4

to go underground and bring back the giant's gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	underground	underground	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bring	cc
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gold	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive						underground property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring back	infinitive		the giant's gold					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=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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