Exam question 3 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

Upon what terms did the dragon propose that Stan enter his service?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon, Stan · What happens: propose, enter, service · To what, where: service

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	4 did	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 propose	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 propose	nsubj
7	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 enter	mark
9	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 enter	nsubj
10	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 propose	ccomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 service	nmod:poss
12	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enter	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the dragon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	past	Stan	Stan's service	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination
3	service		Stan		nom service «act 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

Three days, at seven sacks of ducats per day, with a horse, a bed and a pardon for every debt he owed the valley

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 owed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sacks	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sacks	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sacks	nummod
6	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ducats	case
8	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sacks	nmod
9	per	per	ADP	_	10 day	case
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducats	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 owed	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bed	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bed	det
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pardon	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pardon	det
20	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 debt	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 debt	det
23	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pardon	nmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 owed	nsubj
25	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 valley	det
27	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 owed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	past	a horse and a bed and a pardon for every debt	the valley			day		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent valley=Theme

Option 2

For three days' work at a set daily wage in gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	5 work	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 days	case
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 wage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wage	det
8	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wage	amod
9	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wage	amod
10	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 gold	case
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work		three days			a set daily wage in gold			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place

Option 3

Three days, paid seven sacks of gold each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sacks	nummod
6	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sacks	nmod
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		seven sacks of gold			day; morning		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Three days, at seven sacks of ducats per day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sacks	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sacks	case
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sacks	nummod
6	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ducats	case
8	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sacks	nmod
9	per	per	ADP	_	10 day	case
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducats	nmod

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

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