Exam question 3 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

By what means had the stepmother's daughter been reared, as the narrative records?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, have, rear · To what, where: stepmother, daughter

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 had	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmother	det
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	's	's	PART	_	6 stepmother	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reared	nsubj
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 reared	aux:pass
10	reared	rear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stepmother	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 records	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 records	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 records	det
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 records	compound
15	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reared	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the stepmother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmother=Patient
3	rear	participle · passive	daughter	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 letting her do as she pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 letting	mark
2	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 letting	obj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 letting	xcomp
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 pleased	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pleased	nsubj
7	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	gerund		her = she					tree rules
2	do	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

through gifts and fine dresses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	2 gifts	case
2	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dresses	cc
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dresses	amod
5	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gifts	conj

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

Option 3

by granting her all she cried for, however foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 granting	mark
2	granting	grant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 foolish	advcl
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 granting	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 granting	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 all	acl:relcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 cried	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 granting	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	10 foolish	advmod
10	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	gerund		all	her = she				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal all=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

by granting her all she cried for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 granting	mark
2	granting	grant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 granting	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 her	det
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	gerund	she not said here	her = she					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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