Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

What did the youth undertake to do with the ring after the maiden had surrendered it to him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: undertake, do, surrender · To what, where: maiden, him

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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	5 undertake	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 undertake	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undertake	nsubj
5	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 undertake	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 ring	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 surrendered	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surrendered	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 surrendered	aux
15	surrendered	surrender	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 do	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 surrendered	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 surrendered	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 undertake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	the youth				tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the youth not said here			with the ring	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	surrender	past · perfect · passive		the maiden	him = he		tree rules

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 right answer

He flew away with it, having deceived her

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 having	punct
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 deceived	csubj
8	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deceived	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	He		with it; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	deceive	past	having	her = she		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He secretly kept the ring after deceiving her and then flew far away across the sea

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	3 kept	nsubj
2	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 deceiving	mark
7	deceiving	deceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 kept	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deceiving	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 flew	advmod
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 flew	advmod
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He	the ring			secretly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	deceive	gerund	He not said here	her = she				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	fly	past	He not said here		the sea	then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sea=Trajectory

Option 3

He stole it and vanished quickly

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 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 vanished	cc
5	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	conj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	He	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	vanish	past	He not said here					quickly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He flew away with it, having deceived her completely and cruelly

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deceived	punct
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 deceived	reparandum
8	deceived	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 deceived	obj
10	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 deceived	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cruelly	cc
12	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	10 completely	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	He		with it; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	deceive	past	He not said here	her = she	completely property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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