Exam question 2 · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

By what means did the boy effect his transformation into a common-looking man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: his · What happens: mean, do, look, transform · To what, where: boy effect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 effect	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	compound
7	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 transformation	nmod:poss
9	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 effect	nmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	15 man	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
12	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looking	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 common	punct
14	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past		the boy effect his transformation	into a looking man	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality
3	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	transform		his = he			nom transformation «event 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 · ✓ the right answer

By twisting the right ear of the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 twisting	mark
2	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ear	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ear	amod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twisting	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	gerund		the right ear of the horse					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

Option 2

By twisting the right ear of the horse three times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 twisting	mark
2	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ear	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ear	amod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twisting	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ear	nmod
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 times	nummod
10	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 twisting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	gerund		the right ear of the horse			time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

Option 3

By pulling the left ear of the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 pulling	mark
2	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ear	det
4	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ear	amod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulling	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund		the left ear of the horse					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme

Option 4

By twisting the right ear of the horse while singing a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 twisting	mark
2	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ear	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ear	amod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twisting	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ear	nmod
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 singing	mark
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 twisting	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 song	det
12	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	gerund		the right ear of the horse					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund		a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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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