Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

By what means did the children traverse the lake?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: children · What happens: mean, do, traverse · To what, where: lake

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» 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=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 traverse	nsubj
7	traverse	traverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traverse	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	traverse	present	the children	the lake	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-Theme

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 wooden raft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 raft	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 raft	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raft	amod
4	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

By riding a large swan across the still water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 riding	mark
2	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swan	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swan	amod
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 water	advmod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund		a large swan		the water			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent swan=Theme across water=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the white duck's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 duck	case
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

By the old stone bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 bridge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bridge	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bridge	compound
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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