Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony die…

What condition was attached to Anthony's employment by the merchant of Bremen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: merchant, Anthony · What happens: attach, employ · To what, where: condition

This is exam question 2 of lesson 918 «Andersen's Tales, The Bachelor's Nightcap: old Anthony dies alone, and his tears are found in a nightcap» 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	4 attached	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attached	aux:pass
4	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 employment	case
6	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 employment	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Anthony	case
8	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 merchant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchant	det
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attached	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Bremen	case
13	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 merchant	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 attached	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · passive	the merchant of Bremen	what condition				to Anthony's employment	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to employment=Co-Patient
2	employ		Anthony						nom employment «state transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

That he would serve for ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 serve	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 serve	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 serve	aux
4	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 serve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	would	That				year		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 wine	det
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That he should never marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 marry	nsubj:outer
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 marry	advmod
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not marry	should	That						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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