Exam question 4 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…

By what means did the old fairy achieve dominion over the wizard Weatherbold, as recorded in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old fairy · What happens: mean, achieve, record · To what, where: dominion, narrative · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 achieve	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fairy	amod
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 achieve	nsubj
8	achieve	achieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
9	dominion	dominion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 achieve	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 wizard	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wizard	det
12	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 achieve	obl
13	Weatherbold	Weatherbold	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wizard	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 recorded	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 recorded	mark
16	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 achieve	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 narrative	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 narrative	det
19	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 recorded	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	achieve	past · do-support	the old fairy	dominion		over the wizard	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dominion=Eventuality
3	record	participle	the old fairy not said here		the narrative		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in narrative=Destination

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 magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 magic	case
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

by force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 force	case
2	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by cunning and treachery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 cunning	case
2	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 treachery	cc
4	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cunning	conj

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

Option 4

by a bloody battle at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 battle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battle	det
3	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 battle	amod
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battle	nmod

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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