Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99…

What transformation occurred when the sunlight fell upon the creature on the couch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: transformation, sunlight · What happens: occur, fall · To what, where: couch

This is exam question 3 of lesson 888 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 99: the stork carries a baby to the Viking's wife, but the child turns into a frog at night» 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 transformation	det
2	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 occurred	nsubj
3	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fell	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sunlight	det
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 occurred	advcl
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 creature	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 couch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 couch	det
13	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 occurred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	what transformation						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	the sunlight			the couch		upon the creature	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon creature=Location

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 turned to stone

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	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 2

the frog turned slowly back into a real human child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 child	amod
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	the frog					into a real human child; slowly property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it became a small living child again

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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
5	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 child	compound
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 became	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	it	a small living child			again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it became a child

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 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	it	a child					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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