Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

By what agency was the tangled skein finally disentangled?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: agency · What happens: be, disentangle · To what, where: tangled skein

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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	root	root
3	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skein	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 skein	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 skein	det
6	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 skein	amod
7	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 disentangled	advmod
9	disentangled	disentangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 skein	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	agency	the tangled skein					tree rules
2	disentangle	participle		the tangled skein not said here				finally property	vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

By a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 knife	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

With a silver comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 comb	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 comb	det
3	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 comb	amod
4	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By the old Fairy's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By the Prince's wand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 wand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wand	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Prince	case
5	wand	wand	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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