Exam question 3 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks…

Which quality of the seven-league boots permitted their adjustment to the wearer's limbs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality, boots · What happens: permit, adjust · To what, where: adjustment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1469 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks the Ogre, steals his boots and gold, and grows rich» 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 quality	det
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 permitted	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 boots	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boots	det
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 league	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 seven	punct
7	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boots	compound
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quality	nmod
9	permitted	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 adjustment	nmod:poss
11	adjustment	adjustment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 permitted	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 limbs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wearer	det
14	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 limbs	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 wearer	case
16	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 permitted	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 permitted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	permit	past	which quality of the league boots	boots's adjustment				to the wearer's limbs	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adjustment=Theme
2	adjust		boots = boot						nom adjustment «event intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Their enchanted ability to change their shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ability	nmod:poss
2	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ability	amod
3	ability	ability	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 change	mark
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ability	acl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shape	nmod:poss
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	change	to-infinitive		their shape					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their supernatural capacity to alter their dimensions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 capacity	nmod:poss
2	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 capacity	amod
3	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 alter	mark
5	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 capacity	acl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dimensions	nmod:poss
7	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 alter	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alter	to-infinitive		their dimensions					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dimension=Patient

Option 3

Their magical power to resize for any wearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 power	nmod:poss
2	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 power	amod
3	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resize	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 resize	mark
5	resize	resize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 wearer	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 wearer	det
8	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 resize	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resize	to-infinitive	Their magical power					for any wearer	tree rules

Option 4

Their supernatural capacity to alter their dimensions for any wearer who puts them on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 capacity	nmod:poss
2	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 capacity	amod
3	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 alter	mark
5	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 capacity	acl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dimensions	nmod:poss
7	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 alter	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 wearer	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 wearer	det
10	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alter	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 puts	nsubj
12	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wearer	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 puts	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	12 puts	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alter	to-infinitive		their dimensions				for any wearer	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dimension=Patient
2	put on	present	any wearer	dimensions = dimension					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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