Exam question 2 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…

By what means did the giant acquire the crown of the queen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant · What happens: mean, acquire, crown · To what, where: crown, queen

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 acquire	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 acquire	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acquire	nsubj
7	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crown	det
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acquire	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 queen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 queen	det
12	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crown	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 acquire	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	acquire	past · do-support	the giant	the crown of the queen	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme
3	crown			the queen	nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He seized it from her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	He	it		her head			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from head=Source

Option 2

He seized it from her head while she was weeping and alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 weeping	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 weeping	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 weeping	aux
10	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seized	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 alone	cc
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 weeping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	He	it		her head			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from head=Source
2	weep	past · progressive	she						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He pulled it off her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 hair	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	He	it		her hair			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme off hair=Initial_Location

Option 4

He tricked her out of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 it	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	He	her = she		it			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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