Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

At what moment was Helga transformed into the form of a frog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, transform, form · To what, where: moment Helga, form, frog

This is exam question 3 of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Helga	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Helga	cop
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
6	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 what	acl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 form	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transformed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 frog	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 frog	det
12	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	moment Helga		tree rules
2	transform	participle		into the form of a frog result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into form=Result
3	form		a frog		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

when the night birds started singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 started	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 birds	compound
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the night birds						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the night birds not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

when the moon came up at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the moon				night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

as the last ray of the sun disappeared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	4 ray	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ray	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ray	amod
4	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 disappeared	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ray	nmod
8	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past						as the last ray of the sun	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ray			the sun					nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

at sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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