Exam question 4 · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

By what means did the infant arrive at the monastery, according to the text?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: infant · What happens: mean, do, arrive, accord · To what, where: monastery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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 infant	det
6	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arrive	nsubj
7	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 monastery	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monastery	det
10	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrive	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 text	punct
12	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 text	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 according	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 text	det
15	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrive	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	present	the infant	the monastery	accord the text	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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

inside a sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	inside	inside	ADP	_	3 sack	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

floating in a barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 barrel	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 barrel	det
4	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floating	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

by a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 boat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

in a wooden box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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