Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

What was the condition under which the Count consented to grant Renelde his leave to marry?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Count · What happens: be, consent, grant, marry · To what, where: condition, leave, Renelde

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 condition	det
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 consented	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Count	det
8	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 consented	nsubj
9	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 condition	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 grant	mark
11	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 consented	xcomp
12	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grant	obj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 leave	nmod:poss
14	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grant	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 marry	mark
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grant	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the condition				tree rules
2	consent	past	the Count			the condition	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	grant	to-infinitive	the Count not said here	Count's leave	Renelde		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent renelde=Goal leave=Theme
4	marry	to-infinitive	the Count not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

that she weave a silk cloak by morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 weave	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 weave	nsubj
3	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloak	det
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	compound
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weave	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 morning	case
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 weave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	infinitive	she	a silk cloak			morning		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

that she spin nettles into two shifts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 spin	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spin	nsubj
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spin	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 shifts	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 shifts	nummod
7	shifts	shift	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	infinitive	she	nettles		two shifts			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme into shift=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that she spin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 spin	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spin	nsubj
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	infinitive	she						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

that she marry Guilbert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 marry	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 marry	nsubj
3	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	infinitive	she	Guilbert					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilbert=Patient

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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