Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the c…

Which condition was stated for the lifting of the enchantment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: state · To what, where: condition

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stated	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stated	aux:pass
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 lifting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lifting	det
7	lifting	lifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stated	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 enchantment	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enchantment	det
10	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifting	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past · passive		which condition				for the lifting of the enchantment	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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

Keeping the lamp lit all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lit	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamp	det
3	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
4	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lit	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		the lamp					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
2	light	past	Keeping				night		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Speaking only when spoken to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spoken	nsubj:pass
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 spoken	advmod
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spoken	advmod
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 spoken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	participle · passive							tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Remaining silent and motionless until daybreak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remaining	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 motionless	cc
4	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silent	conj
5	until	until	ADP	_	6 daybreak	case
6	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remaining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	gerund					until daybreak	silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Remaining silent and motionless in the church until the first light of daybreak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Remaining	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 motionless	cc
4	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silent	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 church	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 church	det
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remaining	obl
8	until	until	ADP	_	11 light	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 light	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 light	amod
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Remaining	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 daybreak	case
13	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	gerund				the church	until the first light of daybreak	silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in church=Location
2	light			daybreak					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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