Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…

What reason did Ritter Red give for remaining concealed within the tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, Ritter · What happens: do, give, conceal

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
5	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ritter	flat
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 concealed	mark
8	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 concealed	aux:pass
9	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 give	ccomp
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 concealed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	reason		tree rules
2	give	present	Ritter		tree rules
3	conceal	gerund · passive	Ritter not said here	within the tree	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»

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

The Troll was too strong for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Troll	det
2	Troll	Troll	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strong	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 strong	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Troll					for him = he; strong property	tree rules

Option 2

He feared the Trolls would see him first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Trolls	det
4	Trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	He						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	would	the Trolls	him = he				first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

He wanted to see whether the Princess would keep her promise to him in the end

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 promise	nmod:poss
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	want	past	He				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	keep	would	the Princess	Princess's promise	him = he	in the end	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent promise=Theme in end=Location
4	promise		Princess				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is better that one should die than two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 die	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 die	aux
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 better	csubj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 two	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules
2	die	should	that one					than two	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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