Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

exam: By what means did the youth obtain the three animals and their subsequent companionship?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam, youth · What happens: mean, do, obtain · To what, where: three animals

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
3	By	by	SCONJ	_	5 means	mark
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 exam	acl:relcl
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 obtain	nsubj
9	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 animals	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 animals	nummod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 obtain	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 companionship	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 companionship	nmod:poss
15	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 companionship	amod
16	companionship	companionship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 animals	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	exam		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past	exam		tree rules
3	obtain	present	the youth	the three animals and youth's subsequent companionship	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Theme

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 stealing them at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 stealing	mark
2	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stealing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		them = they			night		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By receiving them as gifts from a passing merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 receiving	mark
2	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 receiving	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 gifts	case
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 receiving	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 merchant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
8	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 merchant	compound
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gifts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	gerund		them = they				as gifts from a passing merchant	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

By winning them in a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 winning	mark
2	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 winning	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 game	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 winning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	gerund		them = they		a game			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By purchasing each of them for one hundred rupees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 purchasing	mark
2	purchasing	purchase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 purchasing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 each	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 rupees	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 rupees	nummod
9	rupees	rupee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 purchasing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	purchase	gerund		each				for hundred rupees	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent each=Theme for rupee=Asset

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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