Exam question 1 · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

Which condition did the King of Dublin set for the hand of his daughter?

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

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 set	nmod:poss
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Dublin	case
7	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	nmod
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hand	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which condition	the King of Dublin's set				for the hand of condition's daughter	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Eventuality

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

Making her laugh three times before the whole court of Dublin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laugh	advcl
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Making	obj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laugh	obl:unmarked
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 court	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 court	amod
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Dublin	case
11	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	you not said here	her = she					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
2	laugh	imperative	you not said here				before the whole court of Dublin; time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Making her laugh three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 laugh	advcl
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Making	obj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laugh	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	you not said here	her = she					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
2	laugh	imperative	you not said here				time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Winning a joust at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 joust	det
3	joust	joust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Winning	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Winning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	gerund		a joust			dawn		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joust=Eventuality

Option 4

Making her weep three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 weep	nmod:poss
3	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Making	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		her weep			time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset weep=Product

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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