Exam question 3 · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…
In what manner did the storks prepare to pronounce the restorative word before their transformation was reversed?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storks · What happens: do, prepare, pronounce, reverse, transform · To what, where: manner, restorative word, transformation
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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 | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 storks | det |
| 6 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 prepare | nsubj |
| 7 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pronounce | mark |
| 9 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prepare | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 11 | restorative | restorative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 word | amod |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pronounce | obj |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 reversed | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 15 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reversed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reversed | aux:pass |
| 17 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pronounce | advcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what manner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prepare | present | the storks | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | pronounce not said to happen | to-infinitive | the storks not said here | the restorative word | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reverse | past · passive | storks's transformation | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | transform | storks = stork | 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
They bowed three times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bowed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | They | time | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
They bowed their long heads twice towards the setting sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heads | amod |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bowed | obj |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 bowed | advmod |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 9 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sun | compound |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | They | their long heads | towards the setting sun; twice property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
Option 3
They lowered their long necks once towards the rising moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lowered | nsubj |
| 2 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 necks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 necks | amod |
| 5 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lowered | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 lowered | advmod |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 moon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moon | det |
| 9 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moon | compound |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lowered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past | They | their long necks | the rising moon | once property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent neck=Theme towards moon=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They bowed their long necks three times towards the rising sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 necks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 necks | amod |
| 5 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bowed | obj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bowed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 10 | rising | rising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sun | compound |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | They | their long necks | time | towards the rising sun | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Topic |
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