Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

In what manner did the bird-husband return to claim his wife after seven years and a day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, claim · To what, where: husband return, manner, wife

This is exam question 3 of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 return	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 husband	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 return	compound
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 claim	mark
11	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 return	acl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 claim	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 claim	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 day	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 years	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the husband return		what manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Eventuality
2	claim speech: other	to-infinitive		his wife			year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic

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

as a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 bird	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in a tall silver coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 coat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coat	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coat	amod
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coat	compound
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

on a white horse at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 horse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 horse	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

in his own shape again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 shape	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shape	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shape	amod
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 shape	advmod

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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