Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

What did the fairy transform Jorinda into?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: fairy transform

This is exam question 2 of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 transform	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 transform	amod
5	transform	transform	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	Jorinda	Jorinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 transform	appos
7	into	into	ADP	_	2 did	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fairy transform					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent transform=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

A nightingale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A small sparrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A white dove that flew away over the dark trees of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dove	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dove	amod
3	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dove	acl:relcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flew	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	past	a white dove			the dark trees of the wood		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over tree=Location

Option 4

A nightingale with a golden voice and beautiful wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nightingale	det
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 voice	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voice	amod
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nightingale	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wings	cc
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wings	amod
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nightingale	conj

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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