Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

In what manner did the Prince restore the maiden to human form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: restore · To what, where: maiden, human form, manner

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 restore	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 restore	nsubj
7	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 form	case
11	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 form	amod
12	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restore	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 restore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	past · do-support	the Prince	the maiden	human form	what manner			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme to form=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice

By saying the words by the oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 saying	mark
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saying	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 oak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oak	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the words				by the oak	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 2

By reciting the incantation beside the mountain ash and the large stone at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 reciting	mark
2	reciting	recite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 incantation	det
4	incantation	incantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reciting	obj
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 ash	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ash	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ash	compound
8	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reciting	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stone	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stone	amod
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ash	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reciting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	gerund		the incantation		the mountain ash and the large stone	dawn		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incantation=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By reciting the incantation beside the mountain ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 reciting	mark
2	reciting	recite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 incantation	det
4	incantation	incantation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reciting	obj
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 ash	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ash	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ash	compound
8	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reciting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite	gerund		the incantation		the mountain ash			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incantation=Theme

Option 4

By chanting a spell near the willow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 chanting	mark
2	chanting	chant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spell	det
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chanting	obj
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 willow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 willow	det
7	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chanting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	gerund		a spell		the willow			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic

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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