Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

What petition did the Soldier make before the rope was placed upon him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: petition, Soldier · What happens: do, make, place · To what, where: rope

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 petition	det
2	petition	petition	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 Soldier	det
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 placed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	aux:pass
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 make	advcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 placed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what petition			tree rules
2	make	present	the Soldier			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	place	past · passive		the rope	upon Soldier	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon he=Destination

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

permission to smoke one last pipe of tobacco before the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 smoke	mark
3	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 permission	acl
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 pipe	nummod
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pipe	amod
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smoke	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tobacco	case
8	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pipe	nmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 rope	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rope	det
11	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	to-infinitive		one last pipe of tobacco			before the rope		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a delay of one hour so he could say farewell to the Princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 delay	det
2	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hour	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hour	nummod
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 delay	nmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 say	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 say	aux
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 delay	acl
10	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Princess	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	he	farewell	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic to princess=Recipient

Option 3

a chance to see his mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chance	det
2	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chance	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		his mother					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

permission to smoke a pipe of tobacco

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 smoke	mark
3	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 permission	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pipe	det
5	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smoke	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 tobacco	case
7	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pipe	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	to-infinitive		a pipe of tobacco					vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source

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