Exam question 3 · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

In what manner did the boy at last obtain the magician's horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, obtain · To what, where: boy, manner, horse

This is exam question 3 of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 obtain	mark
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 obtain	amod
9	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 magician	det
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 horse	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 magician	case
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obtain	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the boy		what manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	obtain	present		the magician's horse					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horse=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 · ✓ the right answer

He requested it as his reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	nsubj
2	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 reward	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 reward	nmod:poss
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	past	He	it				as his reward	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	reward		his = he						nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He won it in a race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 won	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 race	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	He	it		a race			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

He traded his bow for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	nsubj
2	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bow	nmod:poss
4	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 traded	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 traded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trade	past	He	his bow				for bow	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent bow=Theme for it=Co-Theme

Option 4

He bought it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	He	it					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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