Exam question 2 · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

By what means did the transformed woman regain her human form at sunrise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: transformed woman, woman · What happens: mean, transform, regain, form · To what, where: human form

This is exam question 2 of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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	8 regain	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	8 regain	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regain	nsubj
8	regain	regain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 form	nmod:poss
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 form	amod
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regain	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 sunrise	case
13	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regain	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 regain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	transform	participle				vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	regain	past · do-support	the transformed woman	woman's human form	sunrise	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
4	form		woman			nom form «communication 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

Recitation of a holy prayer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recitation	recitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 prayer	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 prayer	det
4	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prayer	amod
5	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recitation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recite			a holy prayer					nom recitation «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Exposure to the first sunbeam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exposure	exposure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 sunbeam	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sunbeam	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sunbeam	amod
5	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exposure	nmod

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

Option 3

Immersion in the spring water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immersion	immersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 water	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Immersion	nmod

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

Option 4

Removal of the iron bolt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 bolt	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bolt	det
4	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bolt	amod
5	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Removal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove			the iron bolt					nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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