Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

What condition was imposed upon the prince when he lodged at the first dwelling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose, lodge · To what, where: condition, first dwelling

This is exam question 2 of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imposed	aux:pass
4	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 prince	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lodged	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lodged	nsubj
10	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imposed	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 dwelling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dwelling	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 dwelling	amod
14	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lodged	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 imposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	past · passive		what condition				upon the prince	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lodge	past	condition			the first dwelling			vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dwelling=Location

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

He must sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	must	He						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He must not eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	must	He						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was not to stir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stir	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stir	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stir	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stir	mark
5	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He					stir property	tree rules

Option 4

Stay awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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