Exam question 4 · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

What did Robin Hood require of Allin-a-Dale in return for his assistance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Allin · What happens: do, assist · To what, where: Hood require, return

This is exam question 4 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	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	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hood	compound
4	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 require	compound
5	require	require	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Allin	case
7	Allin	Allin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 require	nmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Dale	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Dale	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Dale	punct
11	Dale	Dale	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Allin	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 return	case
13	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 assistance	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 assistance	nmod:poss
16	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Hood require of Allin		return		for Allin's assistance	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent require=Eventuality
2	assist		Allin						nom assistance «act transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Money and a horse to ride away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 horse	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Money	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ride	mark
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Money	acl
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 ride	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride away	to-infinitive						away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Service as a faithful follower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 follower	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 follower	det
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 follower	amod
5	follower	follower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Service	nmod

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

Option 3

That he give up his harp and become a monk in the abbey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 give	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 give	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 harp	nmod:poss
6	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 become	cc
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 monk	det
10	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 abbey	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 abbey	det
13	abbey	abbey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monk	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	infinitive	That	his harp					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Source
2	become	infinitive	That not said here	a monk in the abbey					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Service as a faithful follower and a loyal friend to Robin forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	5 follower	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 follower	det
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 follower	amod
5	follower	follower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Service	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 friend	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
8	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friend	amod
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Service	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Robin	case
11	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 friend	nmod
12	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Service	advmod

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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