Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56…

State the outcome of Bellah's final action upon the Groac'h, and identify the form into which she was transformed.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Bellah · What happens: state, identify, transform, act · To what, where: outcome, form, Bellah

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1331 «Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 action	case
5	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 action	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Bellah	case
7	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 action	amod
8	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outcome	nmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 Groac'h	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Groac'h	det
11	Groac'h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 action	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 identify	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 identify	cc
14	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 State	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 form	det
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 identify	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 transformed	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 transformed	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 transformed	aux:pass
21	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 identify	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the outcome of Bellah's final action upon the Groac'h		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic
2	identify	infinitive		the form		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
3	transform	past · passive		Bellah		vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into which=Result
4	act		Bellah		upon the Groac'h	nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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

A toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toad	det
2	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Turned into a frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 frog	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 frog	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle						into a frog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into frog=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She became a toad, horrible to look upon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toad	det
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horrible	punct
6	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 horrible	xcomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	She	a toad					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

She became a snake, dreadful to behold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dreadful	punct
6	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 became	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 behold	mark
8	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dreadful	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	She	a snake				dreadful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	behold	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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