Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

By what means was the prince afflicted following his obstinate refusal to accompany his father?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince, his · What happens: mean, be, follow, accompany, refuse · To what, where: obstinate refusal, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 afflicted	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 afflicted	nsubj
7	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
8	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 afflicted	xcomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 refusal	nmod:poss
10	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 refusal	amod
11	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 following	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 accompany	mark
13	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 following	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 accompany	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	the prince		afflict property	tree rules
3	follow	gerund	the prince not said here	his obstinate refusal		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refusal=Theme
4	accompany	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	his father		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
5	refuse		his = he			nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

by a spell of burning and drying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 spell	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 burning	case
5	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drying	cc
7	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell			burning					nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

by a curse of scorching and withering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 curse	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 curse	det
3	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 scorching	mark
5	scorching	scorch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 curse	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 withering	cc
7	withering	wither	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 scorching	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	gerund	a curse not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	wither	gerund	a curse not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

by scorching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 scorching	mark
2	scorching	scorch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

through a charm of freezing and wilting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	3 charm	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 charm	det
3	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 freezing	case
5	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charm	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wilting	cc
7	wilting	wilting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charm	conj

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/714-pg2435-part54/e1/