Exam question 4 · Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three s…

To what end did Ivan transform himself upon returning for his gloves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ivan · What happens: transform, return · To what, where: Ivan

This is exam question 4 of lesson 424 «Slavonic Myths, Ivan Popyalof, part 16: Ivan kills three snakes and tricks the Snake's wife» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 transform	obj
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 transform	aux
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 transform	nsubj
6	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 transform	obj
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 returning	mark
9	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 transform	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 gloves	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gloves	nmod:poss
12	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 returning	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 transform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transform	past · do-support	Ivan	Ivan					tree rules
2	return	gerund	Ivan not said here					for Ivan's gloves	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He became a cat so that he could listen in secretly to the Snake's wife's plans

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 listen	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 listen	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 listen	aux
9	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 became	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	18 plans	case
11	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	18 plans	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	18 plans	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Snake	det
14	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Snake	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plans	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 wife	case
18	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	a cat		tree rules
2	listen	could	cat		in the Snake's wife's plans	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in plan=Theme
3	plan		the Snake's wife			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He became a cat to overhear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 overhear	mark
6	overhear	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cat	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	a cat					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	overhear	to-infinitive	He not said here	a cat not said here					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He became a fox to hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hide	mark
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fox	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	He	a fox					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hide	to-infinitive	He not said here	a fox not said here					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He changed into a cat to sneak back in and overhear the wife plotting against him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sneak	mark
7	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 changed	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	9 in	advmod
9	in	in	ADV	_	7 sneak	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 overhear	cc
11	overhear	overhear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sneak	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 overhear	obj
14	plotting	plot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wife	acl
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 plotting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	past	He		into a cat result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into cat=Result
2	sneak	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	overhear	infinitive	He not said here	the wife		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4	plot	gerund	the wife not said here		against cat	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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