Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

By what means did Cinderlad acquire the strength necessary to wield the sword?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: mean, acquire, wield · To what, where: strength, sword

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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	6 acquire	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	6 acquire	aux
5	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 acquire	nsubj
6	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strength	det
8	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acquire	obj
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acquire	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 wield	mark
11	wield	wield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 necessary	csubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sword	det
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wield	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 acquire	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	acquire	past · do-support	Cinderlad	the strength	necessary property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3	wield	to-infinitive		the sword		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme

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 bread

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
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obj

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

Option 2

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

By resting after the long hard ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 resting	mark
2	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	7 ride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ride	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ride	amod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ride	amod
7	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 resting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	gerund					after the long hard ride		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By drinking repeatedly from the pitcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 drinking	mark
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	2 drinking	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 pitcher	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pitcher	det
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund				the pitcher		repeatedly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from pitcher=Source

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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