Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…

What form did the troll give the lad at the first transformation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: troll · What happens: be, do, give · To what, where: lad, first transformation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 troll	det
5	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 transformation	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 transformation	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 transformation	amod
12	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	do	past				tree rules
3	give	present	the troll	the lad	the first transformation	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent lad=Theme at transformation=Asset

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

A hare, which he kept for one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kept	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a hare				year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 2

A fish, which he kept for one month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kept	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 month	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 month	nummod
9	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a fish				month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 3

A hare, which he kept for one season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj:outer
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kept	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 season	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 season	nummod
9	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a hare				season		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 4

A raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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