Exam question 4 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples…

What was the outcome of Tiidu's return to his native country?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: outcome, Tiidu · What happens: be, return

This is exam question 4 of lesson 680 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples at the palace, and the royal noses grow.» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 return	case
6	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 return	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Tiidu	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 country	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 country	nmod:poss
11	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 country	amod
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the outcome of Tiidu's return to Tiidu's native country						tree rules
2	return		Tiidu					to Tiidu's native country	nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

He bought land and found a bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bride	det
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	He	land					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	find	past	He not said here	a bride					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic

Option 2

He built a house and retired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 retired	cc
6	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 built	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	He	a house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
2	retire	participle	He not said here						vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He purchased an estate and married

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 purchased	nsubj
2	purchased	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 estate	det
4	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchased	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 married	cc
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 purchased	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purchase	past	He	a estate					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Theme
2	marry	participle	He not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

He purchased a large estate near the coast, opened a clinic, and married a healer's daughter

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 purchased	nsubj
2	purchased	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 estate	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 estate	amod
5	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchased	obj
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 coast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coast	det
8	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchased	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 purchased	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 clinic	det
12	clinic	clinic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 married	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 married	cc
15	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 purchased	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 healer	det
17	healer	healer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 daughter	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 healer	case
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 married	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	purchase	past	He	a large estate	the coast	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Theme
2	open	past		a clinic		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clinic=Theme
3	marry	past	He not said here	a healer's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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