Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steal…

By what means did the bird convey the talisman away from the camp?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird · What happens: mean, convey · To what, where: talisman

This is exam question 3 of lesson 202 «Arabian Nights, Prince Camaralzaman, part 42: a bird steals the talisman and Badoura takes her husband's place» 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 convey	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 convey	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 convey	nsubj
7	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 talisman	det
9	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 convey	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 convey	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 camp	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 camp	det
13	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 convey	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	convey	past · do-support	the bird	the talisman				away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent talisman=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

by swallowing the stone in flight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 swallowing	mark
2	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 flight	case
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	gerund		the stone		flight			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

Option 2

by dropping it near the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 dropping	mark
2	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropping	obj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		it		the water			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near water=Destination

Option 3

by taking the stone from the prince's hand while he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 taking	mark
2	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taking	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 slept	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slept	nsubj
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 taking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		the stone		the prince's hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
2	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

by flying over the camp at night and dropping the stone unseen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 flying	mark
2	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 camp	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 camp	det
5	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dropping	cc
9	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flying	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropping	obj
12	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dropping	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund				the camp	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over camp=Location
2	drop	gerund		the stone				unseen property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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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