Exam question 2 · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

To whom was the bride promised against her own wishes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bride · What happens: be, promise, wish

This is exam question 2 of lesson 344 «Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood helps a sad young man win back his bride from a rich old suitor» 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	To	to	ADP	_	5 bride	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bride	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bride	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promised	obl
6	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	against	against	ADP	_	10 wishes	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wishes	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wishes	amod
10	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 promised	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 promised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		to the bride	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past		against bride's own wishes	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wish		bride		nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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

To a harsh and elderly man who lived in the stone castle near the church

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
3	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 elderly	cc
5	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 harsh	conj
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 castle	compound
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 church	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 church	det
15	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a harsh man			the stone castle		near the church	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To a rich old knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	5 knight	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knight	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knight	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knight	amod
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

To a greedy old lord who owned many lands and castles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	5 lord	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lord	det
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lord	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lord	amod
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 owned	nsubj
7	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lord	acl:relcl
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lands	amod
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 owned	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 castles	cc
11	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	a greedy old lord	many lands and castles					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To a wealthy elderly man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	5 man	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
3	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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