Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

Into what creature did the stone transform when the old woman unfastened her shawl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, old woman · What happens: do, unfasten · To what, where: stone transform, shawl

This is exam question 2 of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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	Into	into	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 transform	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transform	compound
7	transform	transform	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 unfastened	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unfastened	nsubj
12	unfastened	unfasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shawl	nmod:poss
14	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unfastened	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	creature	the stone transform					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transform=Eventuality
2	unfasten	participle	the old woman	woman's shawl					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shawl=Patient

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 small cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a horse-sized kow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kow	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sized	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 horse	punct
4	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kow	amod
5	kow	kow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	size	participle							tree rules

Option 3

a pony-sized beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beast	det
2	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sized	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pony	punct
4	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beast	amod
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	size	participle							tree rules

Option 4

a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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