Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 26: the sailors land, Ki…

By what means did the King and the Prince communicate, in view of the King's loss of speech?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: mean, communicate, view · To what, where: view, loss

This is exam question 2 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=Rel	10 communicate	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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 communicate	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 communicate	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Prince	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	conj
10	communicate	communicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 view	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 view	case
13	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 communicate	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 loss	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 loss	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 view	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 speech	case
20	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 loss	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 communicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	communicate	past · do-support	the King and the Prince	view of the King's loss of speech	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Topic
3	view			the King's loss of speech	nom view «cognition 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

by sending a page with notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sending	mark
2	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 page	det
4	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sending	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 notes	case
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		a page				with notes	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent page=Theme

Option 2

by letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 letter	case
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

by writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 writing	case
2	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by means of written correspondence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 means	case
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 correspondence	case
4	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 correspondence	amod
5	correspondence	correspondence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						of written correspondence	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	write	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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