Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride…

By what means did the old woman discover, upon her return, that the thread had lost its brightness?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: mean, discover, lose, return · To what, where: thread

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1454 «Blue Fairy Book, Goldenhair, part 1: a prince wins a bride, then three maidens and a raven's message» 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	8 discover	advcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 discover	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discover	nsubj
8	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 return	punct
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 return	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 return	nmod:poss
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discover	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 lost	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thread	det
16	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lost	aux
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 discover	advcl
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brightness	nmod:poss
20	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 discover	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	discover	past · do-support	the old woman		upon woman's return	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past · perfect · passive		the thread		tree rules
4	return		woman			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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

She perceived the tarnished thread herself, at once, in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perceived	nsubj
2	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thread	det
4	tarnished	tarnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thread	amod
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	obj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 perceived	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 once	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 perceived	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hall	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	She	the tarnished thread				herself = she obl:unmarked; once property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus
2	tarnish	participle							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A servant pointed it out to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pointed	nsubj
3	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pointed	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 pointed	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pointed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point out	past	a servant	it	her = she				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient

Option 3

The raven told her so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	so	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the raven		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She perceived the tarnished thread herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 perceived	nsubj
2	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thread	det
4	tarnished	tarnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thread	amod
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perceived	obj
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 perceived	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	She	the tarnished thread				herself = she obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thread=Stimulus
2	tarnish	participle							vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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