Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

Of what did Ritter Red compel the Princess to assert falsely?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ritter · What happens: compel, assert · To what, where: Princess

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 compel	aux
4	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 compel	nsubj
5	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ritter	flat
6	compel	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compel	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 assert	mark
10	assert	assert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 compel	advcl
11	falsely	falsely	ADV	_	10 assert	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	past · do-support	Ritter	the Princess					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	assert	to-infinitive	Ritter not said here					falsely property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 he had slain the Trolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 slain	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slain	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	aux
4	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Trolls	det
6	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past · perfect · passive		That					tree rules

Option 2

That he was a knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 knight	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knight	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knight	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a knight					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That he had rescued her himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 rescued	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rescued	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rescued	aux
4	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rescued	obj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 rescued	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rescue	past · perfect · passive		That					tree rules

Option 4

That he had slain all three Trolls and was the King's heir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 slain	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slain	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	aux
4	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 Trolls	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Trolls	nummod
7	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slain	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heir	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heir	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heir	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 King	case
13	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past · perfect · passive		That					tree rules
2	is a	past		the King's heir					tree rules

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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