Exam question 1 · Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia…

In what manner was the young traveller elevated to the office of Emir?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, elevate · To what, where: young traveller, manner, office

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1878 «Fairy Gifts, Sylvia and the Flower Fairy, part 15: Sylvia visits three princesses and reports on each» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traveller	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traveller	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 traveller	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 traveller	amod
7	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 traveller	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 office	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 office	det
11	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 elevated	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Emir	case
13	Emir	Emir	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 office	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 traveller	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the young traveller		what manner			tree rules
2	elevate	participle		the young traveller not said here		the office of Emir			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to office=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 · ← Mova's choice

by a vote of the old council

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 vote	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vote	det
3	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 council	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 council	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 council	amod
7	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vote	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vote			the old council					nom vote «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

by his father's will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 will	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 will	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 father	case
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3

by a royal decree signed in the palace after a long debate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 decree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 decree	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 decree	amod
4	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 decree	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 palace	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 palace	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signed	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 debate	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 debate	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 debate	amod
12	debate	debate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 signed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign	participle		a royal decree not said here		the palace	after a long debate		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in palace=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by the spontaneous acclamation of a crowd that followed a pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	4 acclamation	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 acclamation	det
3	spontaneous	spontaneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 acclamation	amod
4	acclamation	acclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 acclamation	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 followed	nsubj
9	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crowd	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pigeon	det
11	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	a crowd	a pigeon					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Theme
2	acclaim			a crowd					nom acclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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