Exam question 3 · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…

What became of Uncle James at the moment the dragon shrank?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dragon · What happens: become, shrink · To what, where: moment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 James	case
4	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 James	compound
5	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dragon	det
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shrank	nsubj
11	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 moment	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past					moment	of Uncle James	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	shrink	past	the dragon	the moment not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent moment=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

he turned into a small frog

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 frog	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frog	amod
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he					into a small frog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into frog=Result

Option 2

he was turned into a tiny rabbit and fled the stage

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	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 rabbit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rabbit	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rabbit	amod
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fled	cc
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stage	det
11	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		he				into a tiny rabbit result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into rabbit=Result
2	flee	past		the stage					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stage=Initial_Location

Option 3

he was hidden under a cloth

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	3 hidden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		he		a cloth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under cloth=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he became a very small magician

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	6 magician	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	he	a small magician					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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