Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

How was the stone ultimately recovered from the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stone · What happens: be, recover · To what, where: stone, river

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stone	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stone	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	nsubj
5	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	6 recovered	advmod
6	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 recovered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stone					tree rules
2	recover	past	the stone			the river		ultimately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source

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 a tunny who released it from his ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 tunny	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunny	det
3	tunny	tunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 released	nsubj
5	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tunny	acl:relcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 released	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 ear	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ear	nmod:poss
9	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 released	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	past	a tunny	tunny		his ear			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source

Option 2

By a whole school of fish who pulled it out of the riverbed with their fins

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 school	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 school	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 school	amod
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 school	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 pulled	nsubj
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pulled	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 riverbed	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 riverbed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 riverbed	det
13	riverbed	riverbed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 fins	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fins	nmod:poss
16	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	fish	school		the riverbed		with fish's fins	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out riverbed=Initial_Location

Option 3

By a falcon who swooped down from above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 falcon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 falcon	det
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swooped	obl
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swooped	nsubj
5	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 swooped	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 above	case
8	above	above	ADV	_	5 swooped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	past						by a falcon	tree rules

Option 4

By the cat who dove under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 cat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 dove	nsubj
5	dove	dove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cat	acl:relcl
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dove	present	the cat			water			tree rules

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