Exam question 1 · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…
By what means did the fox effect the transport of Ian Direach across the sea to the Seven Big Women?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, do · To what, where: fox effect, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 effect | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effect | compound |
| 7 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 transport | det |
| 9 | transport | transport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 effect | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Ian | case |
| 11 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 transport | nmod |
| 12 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ian | flat |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Women | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Women | det |
| 18 | Seven | Seven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Big | compound |
| 19 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Women | compound |
| 20 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the fox effect | the sea | to the Big Women | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality |
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
By fishing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 fishing | case |
| 2 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
By transforming himself into a boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 transforming | mark |
| 2 | transforming | transform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 transforming | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 transforming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | gerund | himself = he | into a boat result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into boat=Result |
Option 3
By boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 boat | case |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
By turning himself into a fishing boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 turning | mark |
| 2 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 turning | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 6 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boat | compound |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | himself = he | a fishing boat | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into boat=Trajectory |
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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