Exam question 4 · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

What manner of creature does the husband become when the candle is lit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: manner · What happens: become, lit · To what, where: candle

This is exam question 4 of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 manner	det
2	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 creature	case
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 manner	nmod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 husband	det
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 lit	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 candle	det
11	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lit	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lit	aux:pass
13	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 become	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present · do-support	what manner of creature						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	lit	present · passive		the candle					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 · ← Mova's choice

a hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a great owl with spread wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 owl	amod
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 wings	case
5	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wings	compound
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owl	nmod

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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