Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

By what means did the merchant's son achieve his removal to the land of Turkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: mean, do, achieve, remove · To what, where: removal

This is exam question 3 of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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	4 did	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
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 merchant	det
6	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 merchant	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 achieve	nsubj
9	achieve	achieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 removal	nmod:poss
11	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 achieve	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 achieve	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Turkey	case
16	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 land	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				tree rules
3	achieve	infinitive	the merchant's son	son's removal	to the land of Turkey	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent removal=Eventuality
4	remove		son			nom removal «act 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 · ← Mova's choice

By climbing into a carriage drawn by horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 climbing	mark
2	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 carriage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 carriage	det
5	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbing	obl
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 carriage	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 horses	case
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	gerund				a carriage			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination
2	draw	participle		a carriage not said here				by horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

By pressing a lock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 pressing	mark
2	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lock	det
4	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	gerund		a lock					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme

Option 3

By sailing on a painted ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 sailing	mark
2	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 ship	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ship	amod
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund				a painted ship			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By pressing the lock of a flying trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 pressing	mark
2	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lock	det
4	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pressing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 trunk	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trunk	det
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 trunk	amod
8	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lock	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	gerund		the lock of a flying trunk					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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