Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 5…

By what means did the swan convey Houarn beneath the surface of the lake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swan · What happens: mean, convey · To what, where: Houarn

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1330 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 55: Houarn leaves Bellah and is lured to the Groac'h's shell palace» 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 convey	advcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 convey	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 convey	nsubj
7	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 convey	obj
9	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 surface	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 surface	det
11	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 convey	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lake	det
14	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 surface	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 convey	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
2	convey	past · do-support	the swan	Houarn				beneath the surface of the lake	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent houarn=Topic

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

by swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

by diving with him under the foam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 diving	mark
2	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 diving	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 foam	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 foam	det
7	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 diving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	gerund				the foam		with him = he	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under foam=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

by gliding under the lake's waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 gliding	mark
2	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	7 waves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waves	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lake	case
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	gerund				the lake's waves			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under wave=Trajectory
2	wave		the lake						nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by swimming with him under the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swimming	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swimming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	gerund				the water		with him = he	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Trajectory

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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