Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…

To which location were the eleven princes transformed into swans conveyed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, transform, convey · To what, where: eleven princes, swans

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 princes	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 princes	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princes	det
6	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 princes	nummod
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 princes	acl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 swans	case
10	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 transformed	obl
11	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 swans	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 princes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the eleven princes	to which location	tree rules
2	transform	participle	the eleven princes not said here	into swans result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into swan=Result
3	convey	participle	swans not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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

A dense wood beside the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wood	det
2	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wood	amod
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wood	nmod

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

Option 2

A gloomy island far from land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 island	det
2	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 island	amod
3	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 land	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 island	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A dark forest stretching to the seashore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 forest	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forest	amod
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 forest	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 seashore	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seashore	det
7	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	gerund	a dark forest not said here			the seashore			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Location

Option 4

A dark forest that stretched all the way down to the seashore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 forest	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forest	amod
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stretched	nsubj
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forest	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretched	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 stretched	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 seashore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seashore	det
12	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	a dark forest	all way				to the seashore result; down property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent way=Patient to seashore=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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