Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

What was the price the sexton agreed to pay in order to be released from the chest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sexton · What happens: be, agree, pay, release · To what, where: price, order, chest

This is exam question 3 of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	4 price	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 price	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 price	det
4	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sexton	det
6	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 agreed	nsubj
7	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 price	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pay	mark
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 agreed	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 order	case
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pay	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 released	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 released	aux:pass
14	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 order	acl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 chest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chest	det
17	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 released	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 price	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the price		tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	past	the sexton	the price not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent price=Co-Agent clause=Topic
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sexton not said here		order	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	release	to-infinitive · passive	the sexton not said here		the chest	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»

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 whole bushel full of money and a promise never to return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bushel	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bushel	amod
3	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bushel	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 promise	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 promise	det
9	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	conj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 return	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 return	mark
12	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bushel	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not return	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Every coin he owned and his best horse and cart too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 coin	det
2	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owned	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 owned	nsubj
4	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 owned	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owned	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cart	cc
10	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	conj
11	too	too	ADV	_	4 owned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past	every coin	coin's best horse and cart					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme

Option 3

A large sack of silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sack	amod
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sack	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A whole bushel full of money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bushel	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bushel	amod
3	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bushel	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 money	case
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

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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