Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the ki…

Which faculty did the ogre claim to possess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: faculty · What happens: do, possess · To what, where: ogre claim

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1447 «Fairy Tales, Puss in Boots, part 34: the cat tricks the king and the ogre» 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 faculty	det
2	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 claim	det
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 claim	compound
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 possess	mark
8	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 claim	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which faculty	the ogre claim					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality
2	possess	to-infinitive	which faculty not said here	the ogre claim not said here					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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 right answer

the power to change into other creatures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 change	mark
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 power	acl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 creatures	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive						into other creatures result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into creature=Result

Option 2

the power to turn into animals of any kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 turn	mark
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kind	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	to-infinitive	the power					into animals of any kind result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into animal=Result

Option 3

the power to change into other creatures and to breathe fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 change	mark
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 creatures	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 change	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 breathe	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	10 breathe	mark
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 change	conj
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive	the power					into other creatures result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into creature=Result
2	breathe	to-infinitive	the power not said here	fire					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 4

the power to shift into animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 power	det
2	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 shift	mark
4	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 power	acl
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	to-infinitive						into animals	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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