Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

Which transformation was denied to the sprite Puck by his own nature?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: own nature · What happens: deny · To what, where: transformation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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 transformation	det
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denied	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 denied	aux:pass
4	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sprite	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sprite	det
7	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denied	obl
8	Puck	Puck	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sprite	appos
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 nature	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nature	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nature	amod
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 denied	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 denied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deny	past · passive	Puck's own nature	which transformation				to the sprite	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

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

The metamorphosis into a fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 metamorphosis	det
2	metamorphosis	metamorphosis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fly	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fly	det
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 metamorphosis	nmod

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

Option 2

The transformation into a small animal of any kind that could creep through the window

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 transformation	det
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 animal	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transformation	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 creep	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 creep	aux
12	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	acl:relcl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 window	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 creep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	could	any kind			the window			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory

Option 3

The transformation into a needle, which he could not manage because of the eye

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 transformation	det
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 manage	nsubj:outer
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 needle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 needle	det
5	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transformation	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 manage	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 manage	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 manage	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 manage	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 manage	advmod
11	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 eye	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 because	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eye	det
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 manage	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not manage	could	the transformation into a needle					because the eye	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The transformation into a needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 transformation	det
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 needle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 needle	det
5	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 transformation	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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