Exam question 1 · Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan m…

Which object did the King undertake to surrender in exchange for his release?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: undertake, surrender · To what, where: exchange

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1908 «Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan meets a magician's daughter and is set three tasks underground» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 undertake	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
6	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 surrender	mark
8	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 undertake	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 exchange	case
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surrender	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 release	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 release	nmod:poss
13	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 exchange	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 undertake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	which object						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	surrender	to-infinitive	which object not said here			exchange for King's release			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

A kingdom whose borders he had never seen before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kingdom	det
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seen	nsubj
3	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	4 borders	nmod:poss
4	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	nsubj:pass
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 seen	advmod
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	before	before	ADV	_	8 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect · passive		a kingdom				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

A treasure that his father had hidden in the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 treasure	det
2	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 hidden	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hidden	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hidden	aux
7	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 treasure	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect	his father			the hills			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hill=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Something of which he had no prior knowledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 which	case
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Something	acl:relcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 knowledge	det
7	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knowledge	amod
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no prior knowledge					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient

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.

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