Exam question 2 · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…

Which condition did the King of the foreign country attach to his consent to the marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, King · What happens: attach, consent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attach	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 attach	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 attach	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 country	det
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 country	amod
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 King	nmod
10	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 consent	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 consent	nmod:poss
13	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attach	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 marriage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 marriage	det
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 attach	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 attach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · do-support	which condition					to King's consent; to the marriage	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to consent=Co-Patient
2	consent		King						nom consent «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice

that Sigurd should rule there until his death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 rule	mark
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	aux
4	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rule	advmod
6	until	until	ADP	_	8 death	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 death	nmod:poss
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	should	Sigurd			there	until Sigurd's death		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	die		Sigurd						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

that Sigurd remain there as long as he could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 there	mark
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 there	nsubj
3	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 there	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sigurd					long, there property	tree rules

Option 3

that he stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 stay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	infinitive	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

that Sigurd stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	2 Sigurd	mark
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Sigurd						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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