Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

What admonition did the birds deliver to the youth regarding the maiden's hospitality?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: admonition, birds · What happens: do, deliver, regard · To what, where: youth

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 admonition	det
2	admonition	admonition	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 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deliver	nsubj
6	deliver	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 youth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deliver	obl
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 hospitality	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hospitality	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 maiden	case
14	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 youth	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	what admonition		tree rules
2	deliver	present	the birds	the youth regard the maiden's hospitality	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to youth=Destination
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

He must shed no blood at all in her house, lest he forfeit his immortal soul forever.

The tree, 17 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	3 shed	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shed	aux
3	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 blood	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 shed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 house	nmod:poss
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forfeit	punct
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 forfeit	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forfeit	nsubj
14	forfeit	forfeit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shed	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 soul	nmod:poss
16	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soul	amod
17	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forfeit	obj
18	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 forfeit	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	must	He	no blood		all			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source
2	forfeit	infinitive	he	his immortal soul				forever property	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soul=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He must shed no blood, lest he forfeit his soul.

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	3 shed	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shed	aux
3	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 blood	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 forfeit	punct
7	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	9 forfeit	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forfeit	nsubj
9	forfeit	forfeit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 soul	nmod:poss
11	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 forfeit	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	must	He	no blood					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source
2	forfeit	infinitive	he	his soul					vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent soul=Theme

Option 3

He must drink no wine, lest he lose his way.

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	3 drink	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	aux
3	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 wine	det
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lose	punct
7	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	9 lose	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lose	nsubj
9	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drink	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lose	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	must	He	no wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
2	lose	infinitive	he	his way					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He must speak no word, lest he be trapped.

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	3 speak	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 speak	aux
3	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speak	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trapped	punct
7	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	10 trapped	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trapped	nsubj:pass
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 trapped	aux:pass
10	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 speak	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 speak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	must	He	no word					tree rules
2	trap	infinitive · passive		he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1680-pg640-part4/e3/