Exam question 1 · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

By what means did the creature conclude its interview with Tom?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: mean, do, conclude, interview · To what, where: creature, interview · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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	7 conclude	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 creature	det
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	conclude	conclude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 interview	nmod:poss
9	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conclude	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 Tom	case
11	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conclude	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conclude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the creature		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Eventuality
3	conclude	present		creature's interview	with Tom	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector interview=Eventuality with tom=Subeventuality
4	interview		creature			nom interview «communication intransitive»: 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

by floating away on a dandelion seed in the breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 floating	mark
2	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 floating	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 seed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seed	det
6	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seed	compound
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floating	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 breeze	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 breeze	det
10	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seed	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	gerund				a dandelion seed in the breeze		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seed=Trajectory

Option 2

by blowing away on a dandelion puff in a gust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 blowing	mark
2	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 blowing	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 puff	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 puff	det
6	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 puff	compound
7	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 gust	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gust	det
10	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	gerund				a dandelion puff		in a gust; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by blowing a dandelion puff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 blowing	mark
2	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 puff	det
4	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 puff	compound
5	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund		a dandelion puff					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent puff=Patient

Option 4

through a gap in the hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 gap	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gap	det
3	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hedge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gap	nmod

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

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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