Exam question 2 · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

What penalty had the dwarf set for the queen's failure to name him within the period of grace?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penalty, queen · What happens: have, name, fail · To what, where: dwarf set, penalty

This is exam question 2 of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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 penalty	det
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 set	amod
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 failure	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 failure	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 queen	case
11	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 name	mark
13	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 name	obj
15	within	within	ADP	_	17 period	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 period	det
17	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 name	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 grace	case
19	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 period	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	what penalty	the dwarf set	for the queen's failure	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient
2	name	to-infinitive	what penalty not said here	penalty	within the period of grace	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	fail		the queen			nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=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

Loss of her kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 kingdom	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kingdom	nmod:poss
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loss	nmod

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

Option 2

Her crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 crown	nmod:poss
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		Her = she						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Surrender of her child

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	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 child	nmod:poss
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Surrender	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surrender			her child					nom surrender «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Her child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 child	nmod:poss
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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