Exam question 4 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

What did the old man promise to bestow upon Tiidu in the dream?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, bestow · To what, where: old man promise, dream

This is exam question 4 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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	6 promise	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 promise	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promise	compound
6	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bestow	mark
8	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Tiidu	case
10	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dream	det
13	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestow	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old man promise					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality
2	bestow	to-infinitive		the old man promise not said here		the dream		upon Tiidu	tree rules

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

A brand new flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flute	det
2	brand	brand	ADV	_	3 new	advmod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flute	amod
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A new set of pipes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 set	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	amod
3	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 pipes	case
5	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 set	nmod

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

Option 4

A shiny new harp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 harp	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 harp	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 harp	amod
4	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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