Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

What was the final transformation of the young men?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final transformation · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: young men

This is exam question 4 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 transformation	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 transformation	amod
5	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 transformation	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the final transformation of the young men						tree rules
2	transform			the young men					nom transformation «event transitive»: of=patient

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

they turned into black swans that could talk again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 swans	case
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swans	amod
5	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 talk	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swans	acl:relcl
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			black swans			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into swan=Trajectory
2	talk	could	black swans				again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they became black swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swans	amod
4	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	black swans					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

they became grey geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 geese	amod
4	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	grey geese					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

they turned into white swans and sank into the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 swans	case
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swans	amod
5	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sank	cc
7	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pool	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pool	det
10	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			white swans			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into swan=Trajectory
2	sink	past	they not said here			the pool			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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