Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

What is the function of the second variety of salad in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: function · What happens: be

This is exam question 2 of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 function	det
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 variety	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 variety	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 variety	amod
8	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 salad	case
10	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 variety	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrative	det
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 salad	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the function of the second variety of salad in the narrative						tree rules

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

it restores him

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 restores	nsubj
2	restores	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 restores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	present	it	him = he					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it restores his former form

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 restores	nsubj
2	restores	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 form	nmod:poss
4	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 form	amod
5	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 restores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	present	it	his former form					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	form		his = he						nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

it returns his old shape

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 returns	nsubj
2	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shape	nmod:poss
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shape	amod
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	it	his old shape					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme

Option 4

it turns him into a bird

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	it	him = he				into a bird	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme he=Result

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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