Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

By what means was the exhausted stork first secured on the vessel?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, exhaust, be, secure · To what, where: exhausted stork, vessel

This is exam question 2 of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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 stork	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 stork	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
6	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stork	amod
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 secured	advmod
9	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stork	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 vessel	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 vessel	det
12	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stork	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	exhaust	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the exhausted stork			tree rules
4	secure	participle	the exhausted stork not said here	the vessel	first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on vessel=Source

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 being carried aboard in a sack of grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 carried	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	aboard	aboard	ADP	_	7 sack	case
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sack	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 grain	case
9	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund · passive						aboard a sack of grain	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»

Option 2

by sailors who tied his legs to the mast with string

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 sailors	case
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 tied	nsubj
4	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sailors	acl:relcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mast	det
9	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 string	case
11	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past	sailors	his legs				to the mast; with string	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent leg=Patient to mast=Co-Patient with string=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by being caught by a sailor-boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 caught	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 boy	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sailor	punct
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	gerund · passive	a sailor boy						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

by the sailor-boy's wooden net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	8 net	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sailor	punct
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 net	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 net	amod
8	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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