Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked…

What condition does the enchantress impose upon the husband in return for the rampion?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose · To what, where: return

This is exam question 2 of lesson 739 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Rapunzel, part 15: Rapunzel is locked in a tower, and a prince learns how to climb up to her» 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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 impose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 enchantress	det
5	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 husband	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 husband	det
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 return	case
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 rampion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rampion	det
14	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	present · do-support	what condition			return for the rampion		upon the husband	vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: 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

A child, given up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 child	punct
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 given	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	participle	a child						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Handing over the baby once it is born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 born	csubj:pass
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 baby	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Handing	obl
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Handing	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 born	aux:pass
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	gerund				the baby		once baby	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	bear	present · passive	Handing						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

Option 3

Giving up the gold from the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Giving	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	gerund		the gold		the field			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Surrender of the child his wife shall bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Surrender	surrender	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 child	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surrender	nmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bear	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 bear	aux
8	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Surrender	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	shall	child's wife	Surrender of the child not said here					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Patient
2	surrender			the child					nom surrender «feeling transitive»: of=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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