Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

By what means did Blaize propose that the spring-root might be obtained?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Blaize · What happens: mean, propose, obtain · To what, where: spring root

This is exam question 3 of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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 propose	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 propose	aux
5	Blaize	Blaize	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 propose	nsubj
6	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 obtained	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 root	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 root	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 spring	punct
11	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 obtained	nsubj:pass
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 obtained	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 obtained	aux:pass
14	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 propose	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	propose	past · do-support	Blaize		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	obtain	might · passive		the spring root	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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

Through a black woodpecker's nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	6 nest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woodpecker	det
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woodpecker	amod
4	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nest	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 woodpecker	case
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Through the spring by the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 spring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spring	nmod

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

Option 3

By a spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Using a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a rope					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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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