Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses…

By what means does Beauty return to the palace after visiting her family?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, return, visit · To what, where: family

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1440 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 27: Beauty refuses the Beast's proposal, asks to visit home, and wakes in a strange room» 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 return	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 return	aux
5	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	compound
6	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 return	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 visiting	mark
11	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 return	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visiting	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 return	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	return	present · do-support		to the palace result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result
3	visit	gerund	her family		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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

By a coach sent by the Beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 coach	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coach	det
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 coach	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Beast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Beast	det
7	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		a coach not said here				by the Beast	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By turning the ring and speaking a wish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 turning	mark
2	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 speaking	cc
6	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turning	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wish	det
8	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		the ring					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund		a wish					tree rules

Option 3

By walking through the dark wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the dark wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

Option 4

By turning the ring and walking through the garden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 turning	mark
2	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walking	cc
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turning	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gate	compound
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		the ring					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	walk	gerund				the garden gate			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=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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