Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Thes…

By what means did Ariadne gain passage through the marble wall?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ariadne · What happens: mean, gain · To what, where: passage, marble wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2048 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 7: Ariadne frees Theseus and gives him a silken string to find his way through the maze.» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gain	aux
5	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gain	nsubj
6	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
7	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gain	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	compound
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gain	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	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 clause=Topic
2	gain	past · do-support	Ariadne	passage		the marble wall			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Theme

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

pressure applied upon a particular block of marble by her own hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 pressure	acl
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 block	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 block	det
5	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 block	amod
6	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 applied	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 marble	case
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 block	nmod
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 hand	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hand	amod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 applied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	participle		pressure not said here		a particular block of marble		by her own hand	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon block=Destination

Option 2

the turning of an iron ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turning	det
2	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 ring	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn		a iron ring						nom turning «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

pressing hard upon the marble block near the old gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 pressing	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 block	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 block	det
5	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 block	amod
6	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pressing	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gate	amod
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pressing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	gerund				the old gate		upon the marble block; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

pressure upon a particular block

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 block	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 block	det
4	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 block	amod
5	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pressure	nmod

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

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