Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

Of what did the Princesses warn Halvor regarding the use of the ring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princesses · What happens: warn, regard, use · To what, where: Halvor, ring

This is exam question 3 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 warn	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princesses	det
5	Princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warn	nsubj
6	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 warn	obj
8	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 use	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 use	det
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warn	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 ring	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · do-support	the Princesses		Halvor	regard the use of the ring	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent halvor=Recipient
2	regard	gerund					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	use			the ring			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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 keep it safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keep	obj
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		it				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

That throwing it would end his splendour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 throwing	nsubj
2	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 end	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
5	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 throwing	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 splendour	nmod:poss
7	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund	That						tree rules
2	end	would	it	his splendour					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality splendour=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That naming them would end his splendour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 end	nsubj
2	naming	name	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 end	csubj
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 naming	obj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
5	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 splendour	nmod:poss
7	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	gerund		them = they					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	end	would	That	his splendour					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality splendour=Eventuality

Option 4

Not to lose it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 lose	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 lose	mark
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	to-infinitive		it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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