Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

What task did the giant set the prince before permitting the marriage to his daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: task, giant · What happens: do, set, permit · To what, where: prince, marriage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 permitting	mark
10	permitting	permit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 set	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 marriage	det
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 permitting	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 daughter	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 permitting	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	task			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	set	past	the giant	the prince		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient prince=Result
3	permit	gerund	the giant not said here	the marriage	to task's daughter	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme

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

thatching the byre with birds' down by dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thatching	thatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 byre	det
3	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 thatching	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 thatching	obl
6	'	'	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 birds	acl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 '	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 dusk	case
9	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 '	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thatch	gerund		the byre				with birds	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent byre=Destination with bird=Theme
2	' down	participle		birds not said here			dusk		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cleansing the byre within a single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cleansing	cleanse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 byre	det
3	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cleansing	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cleansing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cleanse	gerund		the byre			day		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent byre=Patient

Option 3

cleansing the byre within a single day, with the golden apple running end to end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cleansing	cleanse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 apple	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 byre	det
3	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cleansing	obj
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cleansing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 apple	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 apple	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apple	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 apple	amod
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 apple	acl
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 running	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 end	case
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cleanse	gerund		the byre			day		vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent byre=Patient
2	run	gerund	the golden apple not said here	end			to end		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent end=Theme to end=Trajectory

Option 4

feeding the hundred cattle before the dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cattle	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cattle	nummod
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 feeding	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 dusk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dusk	det
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 feeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund			the hundred cattle		dusk		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient

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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