Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

What penalty was the Soldier condemned to undergo on the following morning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Soldier · What happens: be, undergo, follow

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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	6 condemned	obj
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 condemned	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Soldier	det
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 condemned	nsubj
6	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 undergo	mark
8	undergo	undergo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 condemned	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 morning	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 undergo	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 condemned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Soldier		condemn property	tree rules
2	undergo	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here	morning		tree rules
3	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

execution by hanging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 hanging	mark
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 execution	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	execution not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fine	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

imprisonment for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 life	case
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 imprisonment	nmod

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

Option 4

exile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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