Exam question 2 · Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning gi…

By what means did the implements of the godmother pass to the orphan girl?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: implements · What happens: mean, pass

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1925 «Grimm, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, part 1: a spinning girl's spindle leads a prince to her door» 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 pass	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 pass	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 implements	det
6	implements	implement	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pass	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 godmother	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 godmother	det
9	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 implements	nmod
10	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
13	orphan	orphan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 pass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past · do-support	the implements of the godmother					to the orphan girl	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by what=Location

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

through a sale at the village fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 sale	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sale	det
3	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fair	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sale	nmod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by inheritance at the godmother's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 inheritance	case
2	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 death	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 godmother	det
5	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 death	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 godmother	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inheritance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		the godmother						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

by theft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

by purchase from a passing merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 purchase	case
2	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 merchant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 merchant	det
5	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 merchant	compound
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 purchase	nmod

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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