Exam question 3 · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

In what manner did the maiden's transformation into a water-lily become known to the Prince?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: do, become, know, transform · To what, where: transformation, manner, water lily

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 transformation	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 maiden	case
8	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 lily	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lily	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lily	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 water	punct
13	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 become	obl
14	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
15	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 become	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Prince	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 known	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the maiden's transformation	what manner		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transformation=Eventuality
2	become	present			a water lily		tree rules
3	know	participle				to the Prince	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	transform		the maiden				nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent

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

From a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 bird	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

By a letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 letter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By the song that issued from the flower, heard twice upon the bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 song	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 issued	nsubj
5	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 song	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 flower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 issued	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 flower	acl
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 heard	advmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 bridge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bridge	det
14	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	issue	past	the song			the flower			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	participle		the flower not said here				upon the bridge; twice property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

By the wind carrying a note from the far shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 wind	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 wind	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 note	det
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 shore	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
9	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shore	amod
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	the wind not said here	a note		the far shore			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent note=Theme from shore=Initial_Location

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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