Exam question 3 · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…
By what method was the party for the advance determined?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, determine · To what, where: party
This is exam question 3 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 | _ | 3 method | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 method | nsubj |
| 3 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 party | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 advance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 advance | det |
| 9 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | nmod |
| 10 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 party | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 party | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the party | by method; for the advance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | determine | participle | the party not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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 vote
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 vote | case |
| 2 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By casting bones from a bronze jar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 casting | mark |
| 2 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 casting | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 jar | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jar | det |
| 6 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jar | compound |
| 7 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 casting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | gerund | bones | a bronze jar | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent bone=Product from jar=Material |
Option 3
By the captain's choice of his bravest men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 choice | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 captain | case |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 choice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
By drawing shells from a helmet marked Go and Stay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 drawing | mark |
| 2 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drawing | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 helmet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 helmet | det |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drawing | obl |
| 7 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 helmet | acl |
| 8 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 marked | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Stay | cc |
| 10 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 drawing | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | shells | a helmet | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shell=Theme from helmet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | mark | participle | a helmet not said here | Go | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent go=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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