Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

What condition did the herdsman impose regarding the scythes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose, regard

This is exam question 2 of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 herdsman	det
5	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scythes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scythes	det
9	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 impose	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	past · do-support	what condition					regard the scythes	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

that ten swords be forged for his men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 forged	nsubj:pass
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 swords	nummod
3	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forged	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 forged	aux:pass
5	forged	forge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 men	nmod:poss
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	infinitive · passive		that				for his men	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for man=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that ten scythes be made, one for each man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 scythes	nsubj
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 scythes	nummod
3	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scythes	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 scythes	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive · passive		ten scythes not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 3

that ten ploughs be made for the workers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ten	det
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ploughs	nummod
3	ploughs	plough	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 workers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 workers	det
8	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive · passive	the workers	ten ploughs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 4

that twenty scythes be forged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 twenty	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 scythes	nummod
3	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forged	nsubj:pass
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 forged	aux:pass
5	forged	forge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forge	infinitive · passive		twenty scythes					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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