Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

In what manner did the Prince effect his escape from the barrel upon reaching the shore?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: do, reach, escape · To what, where: Prince effect, manner, shore

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 effect	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 effect	compound
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 escape	nmod:poss
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 barrel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 barrel	det
12	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	14 reaching	mark
14	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reaching	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Prince effect his escape	what manner	from the barrel	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality
2	reach	gerund		the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
3	escape		his = he				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swimming	mark
2	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 2

by waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by removing its bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 removing	mark
2	removing	remove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bottom	nmod:poss
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	gerund		its bottom					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme

Option 4

by breaking the lid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 breaking	mark
2	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lid	det
4	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	gerund		the lid					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lid=Patient

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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