Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees…

In the tale, what is the principal wish of the protagonist?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale · What happens: be · To what, where: principal wish

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1546 «Norse Tales, The Voice of Death, part 1: a rich man flees death, but the voice still finds his family» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 wish	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wish	det
8	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wish	amod
9	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tale	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 protagonist	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 protagonist	det
12	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wish	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tale	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tale	the principal wish				of the protagonist	tree rules

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 gain a fine house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 gain	mark
2	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	to-infinitive		a fine house					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 2

To obtain large riches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 obtain	mark
2	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 riches	amod
4	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 obtain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	to-infinitive		large riches					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rich=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To acquire great wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 acquire	mark
2	acquire	acquire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wealth	amod
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquire	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	to-infinitive		great wealth					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wealth=Theme

Option 4

To acquire great wealth so that he might live as a lord for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 acquire	mark
2	acquire	acquire	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wealth	amod
4	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acquire	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 live	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 live	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 live	aux
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 acquire	advcl
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 lord	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lord	det
12	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 live	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	acquire	to-infinitive		great wealth					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wealth=Theme
2	live	might	he					as a lord	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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