Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

By what means did the artificial apple effect its cure?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 effect	det
6	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 effect	amod
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effect	compound
8	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	parataxis
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cure	nmod:poss
10	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effect	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

By eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By prayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 prayer	case
2	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the patient's smelling it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 smelling	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 patient	det
3	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelling	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 patient	case
5	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	gerund		patient					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

By the patient's touching it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 touching	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 patient	det
3	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touching	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 patient	case
5	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	gerund		patient					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

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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