Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland…

State the condition upon which the king would bestow his youngest son upon Molly Whuppie.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: state, bestow · To what, where: condition, youngest son

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1961 «English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, part 1: Childe Rowland frees his sister and the Elfin King, then Molly Whuppie tricks a giant three times» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bestow	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestow	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bestow	aux
9	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 condition	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 son	amod
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bestow	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 Molly	case
14	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bestow	obl
15	Whuppie	Whuppie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Molly	flat
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the condition					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic
2	bestow	would	the king	king's youngest son				upon the condition; upon Molly	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 giant's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		the giant						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the retrieval of the giant's ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 retrieval	det
2	retrieval	retrieval	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 ring	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 retrieval	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	retrieve			the giant's ring					nom retrieval «process transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

bringing back the giant's sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 bringing	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sword	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bringing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	gerund		the giant's sword					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the return of the golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 return	det
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 ring	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		the golden ring						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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