Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

By what means did the falcon ascertain the whereabouts of the ogre?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: falcon · What happens: mean, ascertain · To what, where: whereabouts

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» 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	7 ascertain	advcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ascertain	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 falcon	det
6	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ascertain	nsubj
7	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whereabouts	det
9	whereabouts	whereabouts	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 ascertain	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ogre	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ogre	det
12	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whereabouts	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 ascertain	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
2	ascertain	past · do-support	the falcon	the whereabouts of the ogre					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whereabouts=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

By flying to a great height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 flying	mark
2	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 height	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 height	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 height	amod
6	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund						to a great height result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to height=Result

Option 2

By sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 sight	case
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By asking the passing rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 asking	mark
2	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rats	det
4	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rats	compound
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		the passing rats					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient

Option 4

By searching the sea floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 searching	mark
2	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floor	compound
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	gerund		the sea floor					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent floor=Location

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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