--- title: What was the forfeit demanded by the Gruagach should the king fail t… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the forfeit demanded by the Gruagach should the king fail to obtain the sword? Exam question 1 of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1289-pg3454-part14/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1289-pg3454-part14/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king… What was the forfeit demanded by the Gruagach should the king fail to obtain the sword? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king fail, forfeit · **What happens:** be, demand, fail, obtain · **To what, where:** forfeit, sword This is exam question 1 of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1289-pg3454-part14/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:e1:1 # text = What was the forfeit demanded by the Gruagach should the king fail to obtain the sword? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 forfeit forfeit NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 demanded demand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Gruagach Gruagach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 fail fail NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 obtain obtain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the king fail | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | participle | | the forfeit *not said here* | | | | by the Gruagach | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fail** | should | the forfeit | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | the king fail *not said here* | the sword | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sword=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} the king's head and neck ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:e1:o1:1 # text = the king's head and neck 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} the king's shaggy horse ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:e1:o2:1 # text = the king's shaggy horse 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 shaggy shaggy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the king's entire kingdom ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:e1:o3:1 # text = the king's entire kingdom 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the queen's golden harp ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:e1:o4:1 # text = the queen's golden harp 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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