Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

By what means, according to the second bird, did the Witch-maiden preserve her youthful appearance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second bird · What happens: mean, accord, do · To what, where: maiden preserve

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct
5	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bird	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 according	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 preserve	det
13	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maiden	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Witch	punct
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 preserve	amod
16	preserve	preserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 appearance	nmod:poss
18	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 appearance	amod
19	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			accord the second bird	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	the second bird not said here	the maiden preserve		tree rules

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 bathing her face in the cold spring water at each full moon, as the birds had said.

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bathing	mark
2	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 said	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 moon	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 moon	det
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 moon	amod
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bathing	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 said	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	gerund		her face		the cold spring water		at each full moon	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the birds					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2

By bathing her hands at the river each new moon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bathing	mark
2	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bathing	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 moon	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moon	amod
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bathing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	gerund		her hands		the river		each new moon obl	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By bathing her face at the spring at each full moon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bathing	mark
2	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 moon	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 moon	det
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moon	amod
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bathing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	gerund		her face		each full moon	spring		tree rules

Option 4

By bathing her face in the spring at every full moon, nine times over.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 bathing	mark
2	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 over	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 moon	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 moon	det
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moon	amod
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bathing	punct
13	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 over	obl:unmarked
15	over	over	ADV	_	root	root
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 over	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	gerund		her face		every full moon	spring		tree rules

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