Exam question 3 · Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks…

Identify the condition under which the enchanted lady promised the prince her kingdom.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, enchanted lady · What happens: identify, enchant, promise · To what, where: condition, kingdom, prince

This is exam question 3 of lesson 774 «Grimm, The Water of Life, part 50: Dummling's three tasks end, and the youngest prince wins the dwarf's help» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 promised	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promised	nsubj
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 condition	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promised	obj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 kingdom	nmod:poss
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 promised	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the condition			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	promise speech: promise	past	the enchanted lady	lady's kingdom	the prince	the condition	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent prince=Goal kingdom=Theme

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

breaking her enchantment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 enchantment	nmod:poss
3	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 breaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	gerund		her enchantment					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantment=Patient
2	enchant		her = she						nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

freeing her from the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	freeing	free	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 freeing	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 spell	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 freeing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	gerund		her = she		the spell			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

release from her spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

if he breaks the enchantment on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	if	if	SCONJ	_	3 breaks	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 breaks	nsubj
3	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 enchantment	det
5	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breaks	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	he	the enchantment					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent enchantment=Patient her=Result

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