Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

By what means was the stone figure of John restored to life?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone figure · What happens: mean, be, restore · To what, where: stone figure, life

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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	7 figure	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 figure	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 figure	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 figure	compound
7	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 restored	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 John	case
9	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 figure	nmod
10	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 life	case
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 restored	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 restored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the stone figure		of John	tree rules
3	restore	past	the stone figure		life		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=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

By the tears of the grieving Queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 tears	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tears	det
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
6	grieving	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Queen	amod
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tears	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By the blood of the King's two sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 blood	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blood	det
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 sons	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sons	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sons	nummod
9	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blood	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

By magic words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

By the prayers of a holy priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 prayers	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prayers	det
3	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 priest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 priest	det
6	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 priest	amod
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prayers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray		a holy priest						nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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