Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

By what gradual procedure was the Prince's ablution conducted in the marble bath?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, conduct · To what, where: ablution, marble bath

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	_	4 procedure	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 procedure	nsubj
3	gradual	gradual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 procedure	amod
4	procedure	procedure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ablution	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ablution	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ablution	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Prince	case
9	ablution	ablution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ablution	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 bath	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bath	det
13	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bath	compound
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conducted	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 ablution	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Prince's ablution				by gradual procedure	tree rules
2	conduct	participle		the Prince's ablution not said here		the marble bath			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bath=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 one immediate complete immersion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 immersion	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 immersion	nummod
3	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 immersion	amod
4	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 immersion	amod
5	immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By daily increments of water depth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 increments	case
2	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 increments	amod
3	increments	increment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 depth	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depth	compound
6	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increments	nmod

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

Option 3

By alternating hot and cold draughts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 alternating	mark
2	alternating	alternate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 draughts	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cold	cc
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hot	conj
6	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 alternating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alternate	gerund		hot draughts					vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient

Option 4

By sprinkling from above by attendants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 sprinkling	mark
2	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 above	case
4	above	above	ADV	_	2 sprinkling	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 attendants	case
6	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprinkling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	gerund						by attendants	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by attendant=Destination

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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