Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

By what means did the Hazel-nut child travel to the southern land?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hazel nut child · What happens: mean, travel

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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	10 travel	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	10 travel	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
6	Hazel	Hazel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 child	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Hazel	punct
8	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 child	compound
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	nsubj
10	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
13	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 land	amod
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 travel	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	travel	past · do-support	the Hazel nut child					to the southern land	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Trajectory

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

Riding on a huge white stork's back across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stork	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stork	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stork	amod
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 stork	case
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund				a huge white stork's back		across the sea	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across sea=Trajectory

Option 2

Flying in a basket tied under the wings of a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tied	csubj:pass
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 basket	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 basket	det
4	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flying	obl
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 wings	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wings	det
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund				a basket			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in basket=Location
2	tie	participle	Flying			the wings of a bird			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

On the back of a stork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stork	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stork	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

In a silver carriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 carriage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 carriage	det
3	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carriage	amod
4	carriage	carriage	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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