Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampi…

What was the principal condition that the Witch attached to her permission for the husband to remove rampion from her garden?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: be, attach, remove, permit · To what, where: principal condition, rampion, garden

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1567 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 1: a craving for rampion, a stolen baby, and a girl locked in a tower» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 attached	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Witch	det
8	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attached	nsubj
9	attached	attach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 permission	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 permission	nmod:poss
12	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attached	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 husband	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 husband	det
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 permission	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 remove	mark
17	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attached	advcl
18	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remove	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 garden	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 garden	nmod:poss
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remove	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal condition			tree rules
2	attach	past	the Witch			to Witch's permission for the husband	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to permission=Co-Patient
3	remove	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here	rampion	Witch's garden		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rampion=Theme from garden=Source
4	permit		Witch			for the husband	nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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 · ✓ the right answer

That he should surrender the child which his wife was about to bring into the world

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 surrender	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 surrender	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 surrender	aux
4	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 surrender	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 about	nsubj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 about	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 about	cop
11	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bring	mark
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 about	xcomp
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surrender	should	That	the child			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	is	past	the child			about property	tree rules
3	bring	to-infinitive	the child not said here		the world		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination

Option 2

That he should give up the baby that his wife was soon going to deliver

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 give	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 going	nsubj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 going	advmod
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 baby	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 deliver	mark
15	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give up	should	That	the baby		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Source
2	go	past · progressive	the baby		soon property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	deliver	to-infinitive	the baby not said here			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That he hand over the baby his wife was expecting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hand	det
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hand	nsubj
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 expecting	nsubj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 baby	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hand	nmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 baby	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 expecting	aux
10	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand		he			the baby hand's wife			tree rules
2	expect	past · progressive	that hand						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

That he would pay her gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 pay	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	That	her gold					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset

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