Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…

What did the stranger transform the lady's brother into?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: stranger · What happens: transform · To what, where: brother

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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 transform	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 transform	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 transform	nsubj
5	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lady	case
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 transform	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	5 transform	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 transform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · do-support	the stranger	the lady's brother					tree rules

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

Fox.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fox	punct

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

Option 2

A white stag with golden antlers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stag	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stag	amod
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 antlers	case
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 antlers	amod
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stag	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stag	punct

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

Option 3

A deer that spoke with a human voice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 voice	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voice	det
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voice	amod
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	a deer					with a human voice	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with voice=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A stag.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stag	punct

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

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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