Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13…

By what means did the prince escape from the company of the robbers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: mean, escape · To what, where: company

This is exam question 2 of lesson 173 «Arabian Nights, The Young King of the Black Isles, part 13: robbed, a poor wood-cutter, finds a princess underground» 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 escape	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 escape	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escape	nsubj
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 company	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 company	det
10	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escape	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 robbers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 robbers	det
13	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 company	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 escape	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	escape	past · do-support	the prince			the company of the robbers			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from company=Initial_Location

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 riding away on his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 riding	mark
2	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 riding	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride away	gerund						on his horse; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

by sneaking off at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sneaking	mark
2	sneaking	sneak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 sneaking	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak off	gerund					night		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

by galloping through the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 galloping	mark
2	galloping	gallop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 galloping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop	gerund				the gate			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory

Option 4

by a secret door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 door	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 door	det
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	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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