Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an…

Indicate the manner in which the King concealed his palace from the view of the world.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, King · What happens: indicate, conceal, view · To what, where: manner, palace, view, world

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1701 «Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace» 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 concealed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 concealed	nsubj
8	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Indicate	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 palace	nmod:poss
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concealed	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 view	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 view	det
13	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concealed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 view	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the manner		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=Topic
2	conceal	past	the King	King's palace	the view of the world	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent palace=Patient from view=Beneficiary
3	view			the world		nom view «cognition transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

by surrounding it with a dense cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 surrounding	mark
2	surrounding	surround	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 surrounding	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
6	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cloud	amod
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 surrounding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	gerund		it				with a dense cloud	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with cloud=Theme

Option 2

with a dense grove of ancient trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	with	with	ADP	_	4 grove	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grove	det
3	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grove	amod
4	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grove	nmod

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

Option 3

by hiding it under a thick mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 hiding	mark
2	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hiding	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 mist	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mist	det
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mist	amod
7	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		it		a thick mist			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under mist=Location

Option 4

by building a hedge of thorns and a thousand guards at each gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 building	mark
2	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hedge	det
4	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 building	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 thorns	case
6	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hedge	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 guards	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 guards	nummod
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thorns	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 building	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund		a hedge of thorns and thousand guards		each gate			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hedge=Product

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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