Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…

By what means was the prince transformed into a dove?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: mean, be, transform · To what, where: prince, dove

This is exam question 2 of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 prince	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prince	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 prince	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 dove	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dove	det
10	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transformed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 prince	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the prince		tree rules
3	transform	participle	the prince not said here	into a dove result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dove=Result

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

a beam of moonlight over the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beam	det
2	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 moonlight	case
4	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beam	nmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beam	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beam			moonlight		the bed			nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient over=place

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a ray of light falling upon him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ray	det
2	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 light	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ray	nmod
5	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ray	acl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	gerund	a ray of light not said here					upon him = he	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	ray			light					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

a curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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