Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her bro…

Which condition did the brothers impose upon the maiden regarding speech and laughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, brothers · What happens: do, impose, regard

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1679 «Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers but is condemned to burn» 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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 speech	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 speech	det
9	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 speech	amod
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 speech	case
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughter	cc
13	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speech	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	which condition		tree rules
2	impose	present	the brothers	upon the maiden speech and laughter	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

She was forbidden to speak.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbidden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbidden	xcomp
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forbidden	punct

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

Option 2

She was forbidden to sing or weep for six years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbidden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbidden	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 weep	cc
7	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sing	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 weep	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forbidden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	forbid	past · passive	She		tree rules
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	weep	infinitive		year	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She was told to hush up for a long time.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hush	mark
5	hush	hush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 hush	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hush	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		She					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hush up not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here				time		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She was forbidden to speak or laugh for six years.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbidden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forbidden	aux:pass
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbidden	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 laugh	cc
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 speak	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laugh	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forbidden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	forbid	past · passive	She		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	infinitive		year	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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