Exam question 1 · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

Which object did Halvor surrender to the old woman in exchange for the magic footwear?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: surrender · To what, where: old woman, exchange

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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	5 surrender	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surrender	aux
4	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surrender	nsubj
5	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surrender	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 exchange	case
11	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surrender	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 footwear	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 footwear	det
14	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 footwear	amod
15	footwear	footwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 exchange	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 surrender	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surrender	past · do-support	which object		the old woman	exchange for the magic footwear			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient

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

His saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 saddle	nmod:poss
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 3

His horse and all his silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 horse	nmod:poss
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 coins	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 coins	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 coins	nmod:poss
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coins	compound
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coin		his = he						nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The brown horse he had ridden from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ridden	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ridden	aux
6	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 horse	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ridden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	horse	the brown horse not said here		home			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from home=Trajectory

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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