Exam question 3 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples…

By what method did Tiidu prepare the remedy administered to the royal patients?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: prepare, administer · To what, where: remedy, royal patients

This is exam question 3 of lesson 680 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper: Tiidu sells magic apples at the palace, and the royal noses grow.» 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=Int	6 prepare	obj
3	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prepare	aux
5	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prepare	nsubj
6	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 remedy	det
8	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prepare	obj
9	administered	administer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 remedy	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 patients	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 patients	det
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 patients	amod
13	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 administered	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 prepare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	past · do-support	Tiidu	the remedy					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary remedy=Product
2	administer	participle		the remedy not said here	the royal patients				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to patient=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Pounding the nuts to powder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pounding	pound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nuts	det
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pounding	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 powder	mark
5	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pounding	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pound	gerund		the nuts					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Product
2	powder	to-infinitive							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Mixing oils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mixing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	gerund		oils					vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient

Option 3

Grinding the leaves in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leaves	det
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grinding	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund		the leaves		water			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 4

Boiling herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 herbs	amod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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