Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Hermod and Hadvor, part 69:…

In what form was Hermod condemned to exist by the Queen's enchantment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: form Hermod, Queen · What happens: be, condemn, exist, enchant · To what, where: form Hermod

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1745 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Hermod and Hadvor, part 69: the Queen's spells, the Giant's trick and Olof's warning» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hermod	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Hermod	cop
5	Hermod	Hermod	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 condemned	nsubj
6	condemned	condemn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 exist	mark
8	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 condemned	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 enchantment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 enchantment	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Queen	case
13	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exist	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		form Hermod		tree rules
2	condemn	past	form Hermod			vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	exist	to-infinitive	form Hermod not said here		by the Queen's enchantment	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by enchantment=Location
4	enchant		the Queen			nom enchantment «feeling 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 · ← Mova's choice

As a lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

As a lion by day and a man by night, until his skin is burned

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 lion	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 man	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burned	punct
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 burned	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skin	nmod:poss
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burned	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 burned	aux:pass
16	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lion	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present · passive		man's skin					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 3

As a bird by day and a bear by night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 bird	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bear	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

As a lion by day and a man by night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	3 lion	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 day	case
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 man	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	nmod

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

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