Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

On what terms did King Archidej offer the princess the opportunity to remain at his court?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: terms · What happens: offer, remain · To what, where: opportunity, princess, court

This is exam question 2 of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 offer	obl
3	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 offer	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 offer	aux
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Archidej	compound
6	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 offer	nsubj
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 opportunity	det
11	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 remain	mark
13	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 opportunity	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 court	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 court	nmod:poss
16	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remain	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	terms	the opportunity	the princess				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent princess=Goal opportunity=Theme
2	remain	to-infinitive	terms not said here	the opportunity not said here		Archidej's court			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=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

to share his crown if she agreed to remain here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 share	mark
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 crown	nmod:poss
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 agreed	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 agreed	nsubj
7	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 share	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 remain	mark
9	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 agreed	xcomp
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 remain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	share	to-infinitive		his crown		tree rules
2	agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen	past	she			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	crown		his = he			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

to be his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 wife	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 wife	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		his wife					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

to reign as queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 reign	mark
2	reign	reign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 queen	case
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reign	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reign	to-infinitive						as queen	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to reign as queen if she consented to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 reign	mark
2	reign	reign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 queen	case
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reign	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 consented	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 consented	nsubj
7	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reign	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 consented	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reign	to-infinitive		as queen	tree rules
2	consent a condition, not said to happen	past	she		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stay	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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