Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…

Which of the following is the term used in this part for a payment owed to a lord or to the gods?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, use, owe · To what, where: term, part, payment, lord

This is exam question 3 of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 term	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 term	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 term	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 term	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 term	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 term	det
7	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 term	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 part	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 payment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 payment	det
14	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
15	owed	owe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 payment	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 lord	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lord	det
18	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 owed	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 gods	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 gods	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gods	det
22	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lord	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 term	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present				of the term	tree rules
3	use	participle	the term not said here		this part for a payment		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	owe	participle	a payment not said here	a lord or the gods			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to lord=Goal

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 · ← Mova's choice

Tax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Tithe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tithe	tithe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Toll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Fee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fee	fee	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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