Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

Identify the magical transformation undertaken by the black girl and the Prince at the river, and state the form each adopted.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, undertake, state, adopt · To what, where: magical transformation, river, form, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 transformation	det
3	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 transformation	amod
4	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 transformation	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undertaken	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Prince	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 girl	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undertaken	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 state	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 state	cc
18	state	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 form	det
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 state	obj
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 adopted	nsubj:pass
22	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 state	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the magical transformation			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme
2	undertake	participle		the magical transformation not said here	the river	by the black girl and the Prince	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	state speech: other	infinitive		the form			tree rules
4	adopt	participle · passive		each			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

a pond and a duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pond	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 duck	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 duck	det
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pond	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the girl became a pond, the Prince a duck, both hidden in the reeds

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prince	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pond	appos
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 duck	det
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hidden	punct
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 hidden	advmod
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 duck	amod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 reeds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reeds	det
16	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the girl	a pond					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the girl became a pond, the Prince a duck, and the Fairy a hawk

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prince	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pond	appos
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 duck	det
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Fairy	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Fairy	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hawk	det
16	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the girl	a pond				the Fairy obl	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the girl became a pond, the Prince a duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prince	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pond	appos
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 duck	det
10	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the girl	a pond					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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