Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…

By what means does Kate effect the prince's recovery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: mean, do, recover · To what, where: Kate effect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 effect	compound
6	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recovery	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 prince	case
10	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present		Kate effect	tree rules
3	recover		the prince		nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=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 singing to the birdie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 singing	mark
2	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 birdie	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birdie	det
5	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			the birdie				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to birdie=Recipient

Option 2

Feeding him the birdie's wing and breast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Feeding	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birdie	det
4	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 birdie	case
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feeding	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breast	cc
8	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund		the birdie's wing and breast	him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wing=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Three bites of the birdie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bites	nummod
2	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 birdie	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birdie	det
5	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite			the birdie					nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Three bites of the birdie, given slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 bites	nummod
2	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 birdie	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birdie	det
5	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bites	acl
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 given	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	participle		Three bites of the birdie not said here				slowly property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	bite			the birdie					nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

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