Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

By what means did the Druid's spell cause the maiden to vanish from sight?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: spell, maiden, Druid · What happens: mean, do, cause, vanish, spell · To what, where: maiden, sight

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla 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	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Druid	det
6	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 spell	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Druid	case
8	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	nsubj
9	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cause	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 vanish	mark
13	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cause	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 sight	case
15	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vanish	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	cause	present	the Druid's spell	the maiden		tree rules
4	vanish	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here		sight	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location
5	spell		the Druid			nom spell «state transitive»: 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

the maiden waved her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	nsubj
3	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	the maiden	maiden's hand					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 2

the Druid chanted his spells, and the king's guards blew horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Druid	det
2	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chanted	nsubj
3	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spells	nmod:poss
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chanted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guards	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blew	nsubj
12	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chanted	conj
13	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	chant	past	the Druid	Druid's spells	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
2	blow	past	the king's guards	horns	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
3	spell		Druid		nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the Druid chanted his spells over the hill at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Druid	det
2	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chanted	nsubj
3	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spells	nmod:poss
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chanted	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chanted	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dusk	case
10	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	past	the Druid	Druid's spells		the hill	dusk		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
2	spell		Druid						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Druid chanted his spells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Druid	det
2	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chanted	nsubj
3	chanted	chant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spells	nmod:poss
5	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chant	past	the Druid	Druid's spells					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Topic
2	spell		Druid						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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