Exam question 3 · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…

By what means did Wilhelm secure the custody of the child Mignon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wilhelm · What happens: mean, secure · To what, where: custody

This is exam question 3 of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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=Rel	6 secure	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 secure	aux
5	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 secure	nsubj
6	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 custody	det
8	custody	custody	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 secure	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 child	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 custody	nmod
12	Mignon	Mignon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 child	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 secure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	secure	past · do-support	Wilhelm	the custody of the child					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition custody=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 paying the rope-dancer's price and signing a contract for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 paying	mark
2	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dancer	det
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancer	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rope	punct
6	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 price	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dancer	case
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paying	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 signing	cc
10	signing	sign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 paying	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 contract	det
12	contract	contract	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signing	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 signing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund		the rope dancer's price					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset
2	sign	gerund		a contract				for her = she	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent contract=Destination

Option 2

through a letter to the emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by paying the rope-dancer's price

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 paying	mark
2	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dancer	det
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancer	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rope	punct
6	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 price	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dancer	case
8	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund		the rope dancer's price					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset

Option 4

by paying the rope-dancer's full price and taking her home to his inn

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 paying	mark
2	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dancer	det
4	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancer	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 rope	punct
6	dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 price	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dancer	case
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 price	amod
9	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paying	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taking	cc
11	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 paying	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 home	nmod:poss
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 inn	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 inn	nmod:poss
16	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	gerund		the rope dancer's full price					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset
2	take	gerund		her home		his inn			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to inn=Destination

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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