Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

What did the Prince and the Master-maid resolve between themselves in the fourth chamber?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Prince, fourth chamber

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 resolve	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 resolve	det
7	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maid	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Master	punct
9	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resolve	compound
10	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	conj
11	between	between	ADP	_	12 themselves	case
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 resolve	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 chamber	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chamber	det
15	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 chamber	amod
16	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Prince		the fourth chamber			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality

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 they would marry and escape the giant's rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 marry	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 escape	cc
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rule	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	marry	would	they		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	escape	infinitive	they not said here	the giant's rule	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Initial_Location
3	rule		the giant		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

that they would wed one another and secretly flee the giant's house at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 wed	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	aux
4	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wed	obj
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	fixed
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flee	cc
8	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	9 flee	advmod
9	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 giant	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flee	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	would	they	one					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	flee	present	they not said here	the giant's house				secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Initial_Location

Option 3

that they would hide in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 hide	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hide	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	aux
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would	they			the stable			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stable=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that they would marry and escape the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 marry	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 escape	cc
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 marry	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 escape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	would	they						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	escape	infinitive	they not said here	the giant					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme giant=Initial_Location

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