Exam question 2 · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

By what means did Halvor's ring come to be transferred to the cup-bearer's glass?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring · What happens: mean, come, transfer · To what, where: glass

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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	8 come	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
5	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ring	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Halvor	case
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 transferred	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 transferred	aux:pass
11	transferred	transfer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 come	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	18 glass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bearer	det
14	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bearer	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 cup	punct
16	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glass	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 bearer	case
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 transferred	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · do-support	Halvor's ring		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Location
3	transfer	to-infinitive · passive	Halvor's ring not said here	the cup bearer's glass	vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to glass=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 · ✓ the right answer

He dropped it into the glass himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	He	it		the glass		himself = he obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into glass=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A servant dropped it in secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	3 dropped	compound:prt
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 dropped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop in	past	a servant	it				secretly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

The cup-bearer took it off him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bearer	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bearer	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cup	punct
4	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 took	compound:prt
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	the cup bearer	it					tree rules

Option 4

It fell in by chance when the bride's sister knocked the cup over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 chance	case
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 knocked	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bride	det
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sister	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bride	case
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knocked	nsubj
11	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cup	det
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knocked	obj
14	over	over	ADV	_	11 knocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	It					by chance	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
2	knock over	past	the bride's sister	the cup				over property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

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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