Exam question 2 · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

By what means does the fairy enable Tephany to meet Denis each day?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairy, Tephany · What happens: mean, enable, meet · To what, where: Tephany, Denis

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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	7 enable	advcl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enable	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enable	nsubj
7	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 enable	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 meet	mark
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 enable	xcomp
11	Denis	Denis	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 meet	obj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meet	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 enable	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	enable	present · do-support	the fairy	Tephany		tree rules
3	meet	to-infinitive	Tephany not said here	Denis	day	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denis=Co-Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

By a copper pin that frees her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 pin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pin	det
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pin	compound
4	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 frees	nsubj
6	frees	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pin	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	present	a copper pin	her = she					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source

Option 2

By a silver ring she wears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 ring	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
3	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ring	amod
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wears	nsubj
6	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ring	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	she	a silver ring not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By a blue ribbon in her hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 ribbon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ribbon	det
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ribbon	amod
4	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ribbon	nmod

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

Option 4

By a copper pin that frees her and a feather that makes her clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 pin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pin	det
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pin	compound
4	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 frees	nsubj
6	frees	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pin	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 frees	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 makes	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 feather	det
10	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 makes	nsubj
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 frees	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 makes	obj
14	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	present	a copper pin	her = she					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source
2	make	present	a feather	her = she				clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

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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