Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…
By what means did the Fairy convey the lovers to their home?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: mean, convey · To what, where: lovers, home
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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 | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 convey | obl |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 convey | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | nsubj |
| 7 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lovers | det |
| 9 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 convey | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 convey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | convey | past · do-support | the Fairy | the lovers | lovers's home | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lover=Topic to home=Recipient |
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
upon a wooden sledge pulled by six hares across the fields
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 sledge | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sledge | det |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sledge | amod |
| 4 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sledge | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hares | case |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hares | nummod |
| 8 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 fields | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fields | det |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | participle | a wooden sledge not said here | the fields | by six hares | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
on a wagon of carved wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 wagon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wagon | det |
| 3 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wood | amod |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wagon | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
in a boat of silver willow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 boat | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 willow | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 willow | compound |
| 6 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
in a chariot of green rushes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 chariot | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chariot | det |
| 3 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rushes | case |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rushes | amod |
| 6 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chariot | 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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