Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

By what means did the flood advance across the plain?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, do · To what, where: flood advance, plain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 advance	det
6	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advance	compound
7	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 plain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	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 clause=Topic
2	do	past		the flood advance		the plain			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Eventuality

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

in a rush of foam and wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 rush	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rush	det
3	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 foam	case
5	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rush	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wind	cc
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rush	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush			foam					nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

it didn't move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 move	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	past · do-support	it						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the water rose slowly and steadily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 rose	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 steadily	cc
6	steadily	steadily	ADV	_	4 slowly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the water					slowly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

by sudden jumps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 jumps	case
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumps	amod
3	jumps	jump	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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