Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

What quantity of gold did the Prince request from the creature of the rock as his recompense?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: quantity · What happens: do, recompense · To what, where: Prince request, creature

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» 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 quantity	det
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 quantity	nmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 request	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 request	compound
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 creature	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 creature	det
11	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 rock	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creature	nmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 recompense	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 recompense	nmod:poss
17	recompense	recompense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what quantity of gold	the Prince request		the creature of the rock		as quantity's recompense	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	recompense		quantity						nom recompense «possession 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

as much gold as the horses could pull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 gold	case
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gold	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 pull	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pull	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pull	aux
8	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gold	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	could	the horses	much gold not said here					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2

all the silver in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 silver	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 silver	det
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silver	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

as much as he could carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 carry	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 much	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	could	he						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the gold he could find in a whole week of searching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gold	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 week	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 searching	case
11	searching	searching	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 week	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	the gold				week		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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