Exam question 1 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…

Which action did Mongan perform to transform the hag into the young woman Ivell?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action · What happens: perform, transform · To what, where: hag

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 action	det
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perform	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 perform	aux
4	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 perform	nsubj
5	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 transform	mark
7	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 perform	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hag	det
9	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transform	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transform	obl
14	Ivell	Ivell	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 woman	appos
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 perform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perform	past · do-support	which action						tree rules
2	transform	to-infinitive	which action not said here	the hag				into the young woman result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent hag=Patient into woman=Result

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

he touched her with his finger and sang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 finger	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sang	cc
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	he	her = she				with his finger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with finger=Instrument
2	sing speech: express	past	he not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he spoke a charm over her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 charm	det
4	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spoke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	he	a charm					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he touched her with his finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 finger	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	he	her = she				with his finger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with finger=Instrument

Option 4

he gave her his golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ring	nmod:poss
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	his golden ring	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme

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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