Exam question 2 · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…

By what means does the King detect the true identity of the Fairy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: mean, detect · To what, where: true identity

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» 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 detect	advcl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 detect	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 detect	nsubj
7	detect	detect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 identity	det
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 identity	amod
10	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 detect	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Fairy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 identity	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 detect	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	detect	present · do-support	the King	the true identity of the Fairy					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer identity=Stimulus

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 the scaly form of her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 form	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 form	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form			her hands					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By the griffin-like form of her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 form	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 form	det
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 griffin	punct
5	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 form	amod
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 form	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form			her feet					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By the sharp bird-like claws she showed when she was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	7 claws	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claws	det
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claws	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
6	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claws	amod
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showed	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 showed	nsubj
9	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 angry	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 angry	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 angry	cop
13	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 showed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	she					by the sharp like claws	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					angry property	tree rules

Option 4

By seeing her shadow turn into a huge winged monster on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 seeing	mark
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 turn	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shadow	nmod:poss
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeing	obj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 monster	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 monster	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 monster	amod
9	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 monster	amod
10	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wall	det
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		her shadow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
2	turn	present			the wall	into a huge winged monster	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into monster=Source on wall=Trajectory
3	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	shadow		her = she				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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