Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

What did the Master-maid warn the Prince would befall him should he return to the King's palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Master maid, Prince · What happens: warn, befall, return · To what, where: maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Int	7 warn	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 warn	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maid	det
4	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maid	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Master	punct
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warn	nsubj
7	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 befall	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 befall	aux
11	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 warn	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 befall	obj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 return	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 return	nsubj
15	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 warn	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 palace	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 King	case
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 return	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 warn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · do-support	the Master maid			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	befall	would	the Prince	maid		tree rules
3	return	should	Prince		to the King's palace result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result

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

he would lose his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crown	nmod:poss
5	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	he	his crown					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality
2	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

he would go mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	he					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he would sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he would forget her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	he	her = she					tree rules

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