Exam question 3 · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…

By what means was the youngest son restored to the riverbank?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, be, restore · To what, where: youngest son, riverbank

This is exam question 3 of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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	7 son	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 son	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 son	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 riverbank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 riverbank	det
11	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 restored	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the youngest son		tree rules
3	restore	participle	the youngest son not said here	the riverbank	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to riverbank=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

Swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 rope	case
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By gripping the fox's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 gripping	mark
2	gripping	grip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fox	case
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gripping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	gerund		the fox's tail					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Experiencer

Option 4

By grabbing the bird's wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 grabbing	mark
2	grabbing	grab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bird	case
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grabbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	gerund		the bird's wing					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme

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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