Exam question 3 · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Why did the knight pardon the young man after the first tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: knight pardon

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pardon	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pardon	compound
5	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl:unmarked
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 tale	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tale	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 tale	amod
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the knight pardon			after the first tale	the young man obl:unmarked	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Eventuality

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

because the young man had proven his innocence after the first tale was told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 proven	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proven	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proven	aux
6	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 innocence	nmod:poss
8	innocence	innocence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proven	obj
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 told	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tale	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 tale	amod
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux:pass
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 proven	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past · perfect	the young man	man's innocence					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the first tale					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

because the Thief's adventure seemed extraordinary, and the knight wanted to hear more of it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 seemed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thief	det
3	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 adventure	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Thief	case
5	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seemed	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 knight	det
11	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hear	mark
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 hear	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Thief's adventure		extraordinary property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	the knight			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the knight not said here	more of adventure		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
4	adventure		the Thief			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

because the tale seemed very odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 seemed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 odd	advmod
6	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seemed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the tale					odd property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

because the Thief's adventure seemed extraordinary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 seemed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thief	det
3	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 adventure	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Thief	case
5	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seemed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the Thief's adventure					extraordinary property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	adventure		the Thief						nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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