Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and h…

What did the father of Catskin declare he would surrender in order to behold his daughter once more?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: do, declare, surrender, behold · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declare	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Catskin	case
6	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod
7	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 surrender	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 surrender	aux
10	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 declare	ccomp
11	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 behold	mark
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 in	fixed
13	to	to	PART	_	14 behold	mark
14	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 surrender	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 behold	obj
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 behold	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	declare speech: other	present	the father of Catskin		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	surrender	would	father		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	behold	to-infinitive	father not said here	father's daughter	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus

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 right answer

The whole of his worldly possessions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whole	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 possessions	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 possessions	nmod:poss
5	worldly	worldly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 possessions	amod
6	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whole	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	possess		his = he						nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The farm, the cattle and the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farm	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cattle	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cattle	det
5	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 farm	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 house	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cattle	conj

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

Option 3

Every coin he had in the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	every coin			the bank			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Everything he owned in the world, down to the last silver spoon in his house

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 owned	obj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owned	nsubj
3	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spoon	punct
8	down	down	ADV	_	13 spoon	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 spoon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spoon	det
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spoon	amod
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoon	compound
13	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owned	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 house	nmod:poss
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spoon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	he	Everything		the world			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme

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