Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

Which object did the Princesses bestow upon Halvor to facilitate his return home?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Princesses · What happens: do, bestow, facilitate, return · To what, where: return

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princesses	det
5	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bestow	nsubj
6	bestow	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 Halvor	case
8	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 facilitate	mark
10	facilitate	facilitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bestow	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 return	nmod:poss
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 facilitate	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	10 facilitate	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bestow	present	the Princesses		upon Halvor	tree rules
3	facilitate	to-infinitive	the Princesses not said here	object's return	home property	tree rules
4	return		object			nom return «communication intransitive»: 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

A horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A ring granting passage by wish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	granting	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ring	acl
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granting	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 wish	case
6	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 granting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	gerund	a ring not said here	passage				by wish	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent passage=Theme

Option 3

A golden cloak of silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cloak	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cloak	amod
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cloak	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A ring for wishing home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 wishing	mark
4	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ring	acl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 wishing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	gerund	a ring not said here					home property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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