Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

What task did the counsellor Red propose for Ring, and for what purpose was the King persuaded?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: task, counsellor, purpose · What happens: do, propose, be, persuade · To what, where: King

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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	3 did	obj
2	task	task	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 counsellor	det
5	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 propose	nsubj
6	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 counsellor	appos
7	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 Ring	case
9	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 propose	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	parataxis
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 King	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 King	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
18	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 King	acl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	task			tree rules
2	propose	infinitive	the counsellor		for Ring	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	purpose	the King		tree rules
4	persuade	participle		the King not said here		vn compel-59.1-1 «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

to hunt deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hunt	mark
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	to-infinitive		deer					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to slay the wild oxen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 slay	mark
2	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxen	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oxen	amod
5	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	to-infinitive		the wild oxen					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient

Option 3

to chop the old trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 chop	mark
2	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	to-infinitive		the old trees					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

Option 4

to fetch wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fetch	mark
2	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		wood					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

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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