Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…
By what means did the magician decipher the secret signs engraved upon the ring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: magician · What happens: mean, decipher, engrave · To what, where: secret signs, ring
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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 | 7 decipher | 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 | 7 decipher | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magician | det |
| 6 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decipher | nsubj |
| 7 | decipher | decipher | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 signs | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 signs | amod |
| 10 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decipher | obj |
| 11 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 signs | acl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 ring | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 engraved | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 decipher | 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 | decipher | past · do-support | the magician | the secret signs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | engrave | participle | the secret signs not said here | the ring | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ring=Destination |
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
By the labour of seven weeks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 labour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 labour | det |
| 3 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 weeks | nummod |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 labour | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Through a year of careful reading
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 reading | case |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reading | amod |
| 6 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By the patient labour of seven long weeks in his tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 labour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 labour | det |
| 3 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 labour | amod |
| 4 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 weeks | case |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 weeks | nummod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weeks | amod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 labour | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tower | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weeks | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
By sending for the wise elders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 sending | mark |
| 2 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 elders | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elders | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 elders | amod |
| 6 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sending | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | gerund | for the wise elders | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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