Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

By what means did the youth of "Master and Pupil" obtain his magical instruction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Master, Pupil · What happens: mean, do, obtain, instruct · To what, where: youth, magical instruction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 obtain	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 obtain	punct
9	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 obtain	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Pupil	cc
11	Pupil	Pupil	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Master	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 obtain	punct
13	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 youth	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 instruction	nmod:poss
15	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 instruction	amod
16	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obtain	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the youth	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality
3	obtain	infinitive	Master and Pupil	Pupil's magical instruction	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
4	instruct		Pupil		nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

By theft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

By copying his teacher's notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 copying	mark
2	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teacher	nmod:poss
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 notes	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 teacher	case
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund		his teacher's notes					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
2	note		his teacher						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By studying his master's books

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 studying	mark
2	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 books	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 master	case
6	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 studying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study	gerund		his master's books					vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

By luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 luck	case
2	luck	luck	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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