Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is ca…

By what means did the mother render the coin green in colour?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mother · What happens: mean, render · To what, where: coin

This is exam question 3 of lesson 975 «Andersen's Tales, The Shilling, part 186: a shilling is called false and passed from hand to hand» 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 render	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 render	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 render	nsubj
7	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coin	det
9	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 render	obj
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 render	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 colour	case
12	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 green	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 render	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	render	past · do-support	the mother	the coin				green property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme

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 leaving it in damp soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaving	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 soil	case
5	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		it		damp soil			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in soil=Location

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

by immersion in vinegar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	2 immersion	case
2	immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vinegar	case
4	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 immersion	nmod

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

Option 3

by complete immersion for several days in a bowl of strong vinegar and salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 immersion	case
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 immersion	amod
3	immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 immersion	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bowl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bowl	det
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 days	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vinegar	case
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vinegar	amod
12	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bowl	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 salt	cc
14	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vinegar	conj

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

Option 4

by complete immersion for several days in a bowl of strong vinegar and then drying it slowly

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 immersion	case
2	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 immersion	amod
3	immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 immersion	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bowl	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bowl	det
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 days	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vinegar	case
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vinegar	amod
12	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bowl	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drying	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 drying	advmod
15	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 immersion	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drying	obj
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 drying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	gerund		vinegar			then	slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result

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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