Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinne…

By what means did the old man recover the Princess's bed from the sea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old man · What happens: mean, recover · To what, where: bed, sea

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 recover	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 recover	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recover	nsubj
8	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Princess	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recover	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recover	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 recover	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
2	recover	past · do-support	the old man	the Princess's bed		the sea			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bed=Theme from sea=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

with a long boat-hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	6 hook	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hook	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hook	amod
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hook	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 boat	punct
6	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

by a boat-hook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	5 hook	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hook	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hook	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 boat	punct
5	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

with a fishing net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	4 net	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 net	det
3	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 net	compound
4	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

using a long oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 oar	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oar	amod
4	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 using	obj

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