Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

State the condition under which the Fairy's doom would befall the Prince if the third task was not completed.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, doom, Fairy · What happens: state, befall, not complete, doom · To what, where: condition, Prince, third task

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 befall	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 doom	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Fairy	case
9	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 befall	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 befall	aux
11	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 condition	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 befall	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 completed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 task	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 task	amod
17	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 completed	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 completed	aux:pass
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 completed	advmod
20	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 befall	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the condition		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	befall	would	the Fairy's doom	the Prince	the condition	tree rules
3	not complete a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the third task		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	doom		the Fairy			nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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

it must finish before the moon sets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 finish	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 finish	aux
3	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 sets	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sets	nsubj
7	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finish	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	must	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	set	present	the moon						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

completion must occur within one hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 occur	aux
3	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	must	completion				hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

completion must occur within one hour or the Fairy wins the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 occur	aux
3	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 wins	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wins	nsubj
10	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 occur	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	must	completion				hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	win	present	the Fairy	the boy					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality

Option 4

completion must occur within one hour, otherwise his life is forfeit to the Fairy

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 occur	aux
3	occur	occur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	within	within	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	nummod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forfeit	punct
8	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	12 forfeit	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forfeit	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 forfeit	cop
12	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occur	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Fairy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 forfeit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	must	completion				hour		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	completion's life	forfeit				to the Fairy; otherwise property	tree rules

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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