Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor mill…

State the precise condition under which the nixy undertook to restore the miller's prosperity, as set out in the narrative.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nixy · What happens: undertake, restore, set out · To what, where: precise condition, prosperity, narrative

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1702 «Fairy Book, The Nixy of the Mill-Pond, part 1: a poor miller strikes a bargain with a water spirit» 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

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

that he hand over the eldest thing in his home

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

that he give her the youngest thing in his house and keep silent about the bargain with his wife and family

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that he give her the youngest thing in his house

Option 4

that he give her the youngest thing in his house, whatever it might be, and she would restore all his riches and lands forever

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