Exam question 2 · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

By what means does Yallery Brown finally depart from Tom's presence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, depart · To what, where: Yallery, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
6	Brown	Brown	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Yallery	flat
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 depart	advmod
8	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 presence	case
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 presence	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Tom	case
12	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 depart	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present	Yallery			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yallery=Eventuality
3	depart	present		Tom's presence	finally property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from presence=Initial_Location

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 sinking into the soft earth below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sinking	mark
2	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 earth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 earth	amod
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sinking	obl
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 earth	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	gerund				the soft earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

by melting into the morning mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 melting	mark
2	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 mist	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mist	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mist	compound
6	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund				the morning mist			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into mist=Product

Option 3

by floating away upon the wind like a seed

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	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floating	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 seed	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 seed	det
9	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wind	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

by floating away upon the wind

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	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 wind	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floating	obl

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

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