Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

Identify the means by which Ole-Luk-Oie induces sleep in the children.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the, Ole · What happens: identify, mean, induce · To what, where: sleep

This is exam question 2 of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 induces	mark
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 induces	obj
6	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 induces	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Luk	punct
8	Luk	Luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ole	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Oie	punct
10	Oie	Oie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ole	conj
11	induces	induce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	advcl
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 induces	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 induces	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mean	present	the			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	induce	present	Ole and Luk and Oie	sleep	in the children	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

by sprinkling fine dust into their eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sprinkling	mark
2	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dust	amod
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprinkling	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprinkling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	gerund		fine dust		their eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dust=Theme into eye=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

by giving them sweet cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 giving	mark
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 giving	iobj
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cakes	amod
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		sweet cakes	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cake=Theme

Option 3

by pouring warm milk on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 pouring	mark
2	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 milk	amod
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pouring	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pouring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	gerund		warm milk				on them = they	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

Option 4

by sprinkling fine dust into the eyes and blowing softly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 sprinkling	mark
2	sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dust	amod
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprinkling	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eyes	det
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprinkling	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blowing	cc
9	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sprinkling	conj
10	softly	softly	ADV	_	9 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	gerund		fine dust		the eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dust=Theme into eye=Destination
2	blow	gerund						softly property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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