Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…
By what means did the clerk's transformation commence?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: transformation, clerk · What happens: mean, commence, transform
This is exam question 3 of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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=Rel | 9 commence | obl |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 commence | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 clerk | det |
| 6 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 clerk | case |
| 8 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commence | nsubj |
| 9 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 commence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | commence | past · do-support | the clerk's transformation | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | transform | the clerk | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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
a sudden storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his wish to be a lark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wish | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lark | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lark | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lark | det |
| 6 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wish | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a lark | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | his = he | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
his strong desire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 desire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 desire | amod |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | his = he | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
the wish he made to the daisy in the garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wish | det |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 daisy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daisy | det |
| 7 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the wish | the garden | to the daisy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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