Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…

By what means did the poison reach the twelve murderers, as recounted in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poison · What happens: mean, reach, recount · To what, where: twelve murderers, narrative

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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	7 reach	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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poison	det
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	nsubj
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 murderers	det
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 murderers	nummod
10	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reach	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 recounted	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 recounted	mark
13	recounted	recount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reach	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 narrative	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 recounted	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past · do-support	the poison	the twelve murderers		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent murderer=Theme
3	recount speech: other	participle	the poison not said here		the narrative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

by way of the horse's saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

by way of the landlord's wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

by way of the stirrup cup alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 way	case
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cup	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cup	det
5	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cup	compound
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 cup	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by way of the raven into the broth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 way	case
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 raven	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	nmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 broth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 broth	det
8	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raven	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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