Exam question 2 · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…

What was the precise period of postponement the king granted before the marriage was solemnised?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, grant, solemnis · To what, where: precise period, king

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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	5 period	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 period	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 period	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 period	amod
5	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 postponement	case
7	postponement	postponement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 period	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 solemnised	nsubj
10	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 king	acl
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 marriage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marriage	det
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 granted	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 solemnised	aux:pass
15	solemnised	solemnis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 period	appos
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 period	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the precise period		of postponement	tree rules
2	grant	participle	the king not said here	before the marriage		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	solemnis	past · passive	the king			tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

one year, renewed twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 renewed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 renewed	punct
4	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 renewed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	renew	participle					year	twice property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

one year, renewed twice and then again after the dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 renewed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 renewed	punct
4	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 renewed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 again	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 again	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 twice	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 dragon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dragon	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 renewed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	renew	participle					after the dragon; year	twice property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

one year, renewed twice, until the dragon was truly gone and the palace agreed

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 renewed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 renewed	punct
4	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 renewed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
11	truly	truly	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 renewed	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 palace	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	conj
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 palace	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	renew	participle			year	twice property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the dragon			gone, truly property	tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	participle		the palace not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

two years, renewed once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 renewed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 years	punct
4	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 renewed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	renew	participle	two years					once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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