Exam question 2 · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

What reason did the knight give for declining the princess's hand in marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason, knight · What happens: do, give, decline · To what, where: hand

This is exam question 2 of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	3 did	obj
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knight	det
5	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 declining	mark
8	declining	decline	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 give	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 princess	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 declining	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 marriage	case
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 declining	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	reason			tree rules
2	give	present	the knight			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	decline	gerund	the knight not said here	the princess's hand	in marriage	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hand=Extent in marriage=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

He had a wife he loved better

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wife	det
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loved	nsubj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wife	acl:relcl
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 loved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a wife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	love	past	he	a wife not said here				well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus

Option 2

He had sworn an oath to a fairy bride he loved better

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	3 sworn	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	aux
3	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 oath	det
5	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sworn	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 bride	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bride	det
8	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bride	amod
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sworn	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bride	acl:relcl
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 loved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past · perfect	He	a oath				to a fairy bride	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality
2	love	past	he	a fairy bride not said here				well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus

Option 3

He already had a wife whom he loved more

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	3 had	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 loved	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 loved	nsubj
8	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	acl:relcl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a wife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	love	past	he	a wife					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

Option 4

He wanted to be a monk

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 monk	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 monk	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monk	det
6	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	a monk					tree rules

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