Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets hi…

Which of the following was the honour conferred upon Richard Whittington by Henry V?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, be, confer · To what, where: honour

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1969 «English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat: Dick gets his riches, marries Alice, and a new tale begins» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 honour	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 honour	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 honour	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 honour	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 honour	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 honour	det
7	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 honour	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Richard	case
10	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 conferred	obl:agent
11	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Richard	flat
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 V	case
13	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 V	compound
14	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conferred	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 honour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past		of the honour	tree rules
3	confer	participle	the honour not said here	by Henry V	vn chit_chat-37.6 «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 · ✓ the right answer

knighthood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the title of Sheriff of London and a grant of land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 title	det
2	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Sheriff	case
4	Sheriff	Sheriff	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 title	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 London	case
6	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sheriff	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grant	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 grant	det
9	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 title	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grant	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	title			Sheriff of London					nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient
2	grant			land					nom grant «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

knighthood and a seat in parliament

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seat	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 seat	det
4	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 knighthood	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 parliament	case
6	parliament	parliament	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seat	nmod

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

Option 4

a baronetcy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baronetcy	det
2	baronetcy	baronetcy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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