Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the…

What was the final condition of the transformed toads at the close of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, transform · To what, where: final condition

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1686 «Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the wedding» 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	5 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 toads	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 toads	det
8	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 toads	amod
9	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 condition	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 close	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 close	det
12	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 toads	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 tale	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 close	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final condition				of the transformed toads at the close of the tale	tree rules
2	transform	participle							vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

left as toads forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 toads	case
3	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 left	obl
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle						as toads; forever property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

as frogs again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	2 frogs	case
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 frogs	advmod

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

Option 3

as toads still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	2 toads	case
2	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 toads	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

restored as royal children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 children	case
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 restored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	participle						as royal children	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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