Exam question 2 · Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back t…

exam: By what means was Jose protected from the boiling oil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam · What happens: mean, protect · To what, where: exam

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protected	nsubj:pass
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 means	mark
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 exam	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 protected	aux:pass
7	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 protected	nsubj:pass
8	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 oil	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oil	det
11	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 oil	compound
12	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 protected	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 protected	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	exam						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	protect	past · passive		exam				from the boiling oil	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from oil=Theme

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

by the sweat that the horse had rubbed into his flesh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 sweat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sweat	det
3	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 rubbed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubbed	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rubbed	aux
8	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sweat	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 flesh	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 flesh	nmod:poss
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rubbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past · perfect · passive	the sweat not said here	the horse		horse's flesh			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into flesh=Destination

Option 2

by an ointment from the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 ointment	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ointment	det
3	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ointment	nmod

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

Option 3

by a cold river of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 river	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 river	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 river	amod
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 river	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by the sweat of the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 sweat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sweat	det
3	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sweat	nmod

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

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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