Exam question 1 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

With reference to the text, by what means did the Princess and the King of the Sheep travel to the cavern?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 did	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 King	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Princess	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 travel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 travel	det
18	Sheep	Sheep	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 travel	compound
19	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 King	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 cavern	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cavern	det
22	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 travel	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						with reference to the text	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the Princess and the King of the Sheep travel to the cavern					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality

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

In a cart drawn by two horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cart	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cart	det
3	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cart	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 horses	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 horses	nummod
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	participle		a cart not said here				by two horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

In a pumpkin lined with velvet, drawn by six goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 pumpkin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pumpkin	det
3	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pumpkin	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 velvet	case
6	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lined	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pumpkin	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 goats	case
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 goats	nummod
11	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line	participle		a pumpkin not said here				with velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with velvet=Theme
2	draw	participle		a pumpkin not said here				by six goats	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

By a pumpkin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 pumpkin	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pumpkin	det
3	pumpkin	pumpkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

On foot across a silver river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 foot	case
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	6 river	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	compound
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 foot	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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