--- title: Which creature did the youths land on the bank of the pool? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f… · tree and pragmatics description: Which creature did the youths land on the bank of the pool? Exam question 1 of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1213-pg3282-part14/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1213-pg3282-part14/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun… Which creature did the youths land on the bank of the pool? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature, youths · **What happens:** do, land · **To what, where:** bank This is exam question 1 of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1213-pg3282-part14/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:e1:1 # text = Which creature did the youths land on the bank of the pool? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 land land VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which creature | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **land** | present | the youths | | | the bank of the pool | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on bank=Destination | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} the mother of the swan ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:e1:o1:1 # text = the mother of the swan 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 swan swan NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the cub of the Bunyip ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:e1:o2:1 # text = the cub of the Bunyip 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cub cub NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Bunyip bunyip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a crocodile ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:e1:o3:1 # text = a crocodile 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the calf of a kangaroo ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:e1:o4:1 # text = the calf of a kangaroo 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kangaroo kangaroo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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