Exam question 4 · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

What is the principal consequence, according to the narrator, of the island having spun around the wrong way?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island · What happens: be, accord, have, spin · To what, where: principal consequence, wrong way

This is exam question 4 of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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 consequence	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 narrator	punct
7	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 narrator	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 according	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 island	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 island	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	conj
15	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 island	acl
16	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 having	xcomp
17	around	around	ADP	_	20 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spun	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the principal consequence and the narrator and the island		tree rules
2	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	the island not said here			tree rules
4	spin	participle	the island not said here		the wrong way	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around way=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

Every animal grew to the wrong size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 size	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 size	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 size	amod
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	every animal					to the wrong size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Every animal on the island grew to the wrong size for its kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 island	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 island	det
5	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animal	nmod
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 size	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 size	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 size	amod
10	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 kind	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 kind	nmod:poss
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	every animal on the island					to the wrong size; for animal's kind	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The island sank into the great sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	the island			the great sea			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The animals all changed their colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changed	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 changed	advmod
4	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 colour	nmod:poss
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	the animals	animals's colour				all property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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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