Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Hermod and Hadvor, part 69:…

On what ground did the King consent to surrender the penalty of his daughter to the Queen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, surrender · To what, where: King consent, ground, penalty, Queen

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1745 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Hermod and Hadvor, part 69: the Queen's spells, the Giant's trick and Olof's warning» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 ground	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 ground	nsubj
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consent	det
6	King	king	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 consent	amod
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 surrender	mark
9	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 consent	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 penalty	det
11	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 surrender	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 penalty	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Queen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 surrender	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the King consent		ground			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality
2	surrender	to-infinitive		the penalty of his daughter	the Queen				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent penalty=Theme to queen=Recipient

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

To spare his daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 spare	mark
2	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive		his daughter					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent daughter=Asset

Option 2

For peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 peace	case
2	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So that he might be spared from punishing his own daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 spared	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 spared	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spared	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spared	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 spared	aux:pass
6	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 punishing	mark
8	punishing	punish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spared	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 punishing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	might · passive		he					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset
2	punish	gerund		his own daughter					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because the Queen begged him to do it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 begged	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the Queen		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1745-pg640-part69/e4/