Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…

What was the function of the magic water in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: function · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1263 «Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the castle» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 function	det
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 narrative	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrative	det
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the function of the magic water in the narrative						tree rules

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

It restored the dead to life and freed the captured girls from the witch

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	2 restored	nsubj
2	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dead	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 restored	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 restored	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 freed	cc
8	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 restored	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girls	det
10	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 girls	amod
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 freed	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 witch	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 witch	det
14	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 freed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	restore	past	It	the dead	life		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Recipient
2	free	past		the captured girls		from the witch	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer girl=Source
3	capture	participle					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It gave the knight great strength

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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 strength	amod
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	It	great strength	the knight				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient strength=Theme

Option 3

It made the witch young again

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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the witch			again	young property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material witch=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It restored the dead to life

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	2 restored	nsubj
2	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dead	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 restored	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 restored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	past	It	the dead	life				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Recipient

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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