Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king'…

What items did the bride take with her when she departed to her new home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: items, bride · What happens: do, take, depart · To what, where: new home

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1168 «Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king's magic is ruined, and a bride asks for a buffalo» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 departed	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 departed	nsubj
11	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 home	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 home	nmod:poss
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 home	amod
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 departed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	items			tree rules
2	take	infinitive	the bride		with her = she	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	depart	past	bride	bride's new home		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location

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

healing herbs, a horn, a knife, deer fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horn	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horn	det
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herbs	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knife	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fat	punct
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fat	compound
11	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

healing herbs, a horn, a knife, deer fat, a blanket, and a clay pot of milk

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 healing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horn	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horn	det
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herbs	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knife	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fat	punct
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fat	compound
11	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blanket	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 blanket	det
14	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pot	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pot	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
18	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	compound
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 healing	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 milk	case
21	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund		herbs and a horn and a knife and deer fat and a blanket				a clay pot of milk obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient

Option 3

healing herbs, a spear, salt, rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	healing	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spear	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spear	det
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 herbs	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 salt	punct
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spear	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rope	punct
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a horn, a basket, oil, and grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horn	det
2	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 basket	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 basket	det
5	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horn	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 oil	punct
7	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horn	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grain	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grain	cc
10	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horn	conj

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

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