Exam question 1 · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

By what sense were the mariners principally drawn toward the palace?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: draw · To what, where: mariners

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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	8 drawn	obl
3	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	aux:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mariners	det
6	mariners	mariner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	nsubj:pass
7	principally	principally	ADV	_	8 drawn	advmod
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drawn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive		the mariners				toward the palace; principally property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

By sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 sight	case
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

By the taste of wine carried on the breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 taste	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 taste	det
3	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wine	case
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taste	nmod
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 taste	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 breeze	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 breeze	det
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle		the taste of wine not said here		the breeze			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	taste			wine					nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the scent of roasting meat carried on the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 scent	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scent	det
3	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
5	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 meat	amod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scent	nmod
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 meat	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	roast	gerund			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	carry	participle	roasting meat not said here	the wind	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	scent		roasting meat		nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

By the sight of gold on the towers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 sight	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sight	det
3	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sight	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 towers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 towers	det
8	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sight			gold		the towers			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient on=place

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