Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more ni…

What was the final fate of Turritella, as recorded in the closing passage of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale · What happens: be, record, pass · To what, where: final fate, closing passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1870 «Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa: the kitchen-maid buys one more night and wins back her husband, and Turritella becomes an owl» 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 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Turritella	case
7	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 recorded	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 recorded	mark
10	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fate	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
13	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passage	compound
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 recorded	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tale	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tale	det
17	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passage	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final fate		of Turritella	tree rules
2	record	participle			the closing passage of the tale		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in passage=Destination
3	pass		the tale				nom passage «act intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

She was transformed into a brown owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 transformed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 transformed	aux:pass
3	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 owl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transformed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · passive		She				into a brown owl result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into owl=Result

Option 2

She was transformed into a brown owl and flew out of the window at dawn

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 transformed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 transformed	aux:pass
3	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 owl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transformed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flew	cc
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 transformed	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 window	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 dawn	case
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · passive		She				into a brown owl result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into owl=Result
2	fly out	past		the window			dawn		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme

Option 3

She was transformed into a brown owl and banished from the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 transformed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 transformed	aux:pass
3	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 owl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 transformed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 banished	cc
9	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 transformed	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 banished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · passive		She				into a brown owl result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into owl=Result
2	banish	participle				the palace			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from palace=Source

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She was turned into a grey mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 mouse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mouse	amod
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		She				into a grey mouse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into mouse=Result

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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