Exam question 4 · Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the…

What form did the hermit's curse upon the thief take?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hermit · What happens: be, do, take, curse · To what, where: curse

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1809 «Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end» 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	3 did	obj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hermit	det
5	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 hermit	case
7	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 thief	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thief	det
10	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	do	past		the hermit's curse		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Eventuality
3	take	infinitive			upon the thief	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	curse		the hermit			nom curse «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

that the thief die young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 thief	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	advcl
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 die	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present						young property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

that the thief go blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 go	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	the thief					blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

that if the thief was a woman, she might become a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 become	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 woman	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thief	det
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 become	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 become	aux
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the thief	a woman					tree rules
2	become	might	woman	a man					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

that if the thief was a man, he might become a woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 become	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 man	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thief	det
4	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 become	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 become	aux
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the thief	a man					tree rules
2	become	might	a man	a woman					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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