Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

What effect did the purple flower have upon whatever it touched?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: effect, purple flower · What happens: do, have, touch · To what, where: purple flower, effect

This is exam question 3 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 effect	det
2	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flower	det
5	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 flower	acl:relcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 whatever	case
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 did	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 touched	nsubj:pass
11	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 whatever	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what effect	the purple flower	upon whatever	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality
2	have	present	the purple flower not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	touch	participle · passive		effect		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

It disenchanted what it touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disenchanted	nsubj
2	disenchanted	disenchant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 disenchanted	obj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disenchant	past	It						tree rules
2	touch	past	it						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It disenchanted whatever it touched and freed it from the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disenchanted	nsubj
2	disenchanted	disenchant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 touched	obj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disenchanted	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 freed	cc
7	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 disenchanted	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 freed	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 spell	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spell	det
11	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	disenchant	past	It			tree rules
2	touch	past	it	whatever		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whatever=Co-Theme
3	free	past		it	the spell	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source

Option 3

It froze everything it touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 froze	nsubj
2	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 froze	obj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	It	everything					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient everything=Result
2	touch	past	it						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It turned every living thing it touched into a bright purple flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 thing	det
4	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touched	nsubj
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 flower	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flower	det
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flower	amod
11	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flower	amod
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It	every living thing		a bright purple flower			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thing=Theme into flower=Trajectory
2	touch	past	thing	every living thing not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme

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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