Exam question 4 · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…

By what means did the woman in white depart from the nursery?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: white · What happens: mean, do, depart · To what, where: woman, nursery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 depart	mark
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 depart	nsubj
9	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 nursery	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nursery	det
12	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 depart	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the woman		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
3	depart	present	white		the nursery	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from nursery=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

by the way she had come, the floor closing slowly over her as the lamp went out

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 way	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
10	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 floor	acl
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 closing	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 closing	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 lamp	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lamp	det
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closing	obl
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	she	the way not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	close	gerund	the floor not said here		over floor; as the lamp; slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go out	past	the floor		by the way; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by the way she had come, the floor closing over her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closing	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 way	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closing	nsubj
10	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 closing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	she	the way not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	close	gerund	the floor	her = she				by the way	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient

Option 3

down the stairs and into the dark hallway behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	down	down	ADP	_	3 stairs	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stairs	det
3	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hallway	cc
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 hallway	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hallway	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hallway	amod
8	hallway	hallway	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stairs	conj
9	behind	behind	ADV	_	8 hallway	advmod

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

Option 4

by the way she had come, with the floor closing over her head and the nurse watching

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 floor	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 floor	acl
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 closing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 nurse	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nurse	det
17	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 head	conj
18	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 head	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	she		by the way; with the floor	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by way=Location
2	close	gerund	the floor not said here	her head and the nurse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	watch	gerund	her head and the nurse not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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