Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

Which instrument did the Fairy employ to effect the rescue of the lovers?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: do, rescue · To what, where: Fairy employ, lovers

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 employ	amod
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 effect	mark
8	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rescue	det
10	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effect	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lovers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lovers	det
13	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rescue	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which instrument	the Fairy employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	rescue			the lovers					nom rescue «act transitive»: of=patient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

her magic wand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wand	nmod:poss
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wand	amod
3	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a long rod of enchanted golden wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rod	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rod	amod
3	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wood	amod
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rod	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

a staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 staff	det
2	staff	staff	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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