Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

By what means did the substance carried on the wind cause the non-metallic objects in the vessel to change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: mean, do, carry, cause, change · To what, where: substance, wind, non-metallic objects, vessel

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1889 «Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, King Bayard tells his tale, and a monkey leads the Prince away» 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=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 substance	det
6	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cause	nsubj
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 substance	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
11	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 objects	det
13	non-metallic	non-metallic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 objects	amod
14	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cause	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 vessel	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 vessel	det
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cause	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 change	mark
19	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cause	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	carry	participle		the substance not said here	the wind	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cause	present	the substance	the non-metallic objects	the vessel	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition object=Patient
5	change	to-infinitive	the substance not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

they rotted and withered away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rotted	nsubj
2	rotted	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 withered	cc
4	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rotted	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 withered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	past	they						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wither away	past	they not said here					away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

they bloomed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bloomed	nsubj
2	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	past	they						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they turned into green plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 plants	case
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plants	amod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			green plants			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into plant=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they sprouted and blossomed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprouted	nsubj
2	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blossomed	cc
4	blossomed	blossom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sprouted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	past	they						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	blossom	participle	they not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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