Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

By what means was the golden box recovered from the bottom of the sea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, be, recover · To what, where: golden box, bottom

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 box	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 box	amod
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	obj
8	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 box	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 recovered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bottom	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the golden box		tree rules
3	recover	participle	the golden box not said here	the bottom of the sea	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from bottom=Source

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

The frog dived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dived	nsubj
3	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past	the frog						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By the mouse going down again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 mouse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	gerund					again	by the mouse; down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mouse=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the frog descending a second time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 frog	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 frog	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	gerund	the frog not said here				time		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

By diving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 diving	mark
2	diving	dive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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