Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies…

By what means was Helga restored to her human form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Helga · What happens: mean, be, form

This is exam question 2 of lesson 895 «Andersen's Tales, The Storks: Helga becomes a swan, flies to Egypt, and wakes her grandfather» 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=Int	6 restored	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 restored	cop
5	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 restored	nsubj
6	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 form	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 form	nmod:poss
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 form	amod
10	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restored	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 restored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Helga	to Helga's human form; restore property	tree rules
3	form		Helga		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 · ✓ the right answer

a kiss upon the forehead of the frog-child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kiss	det
2	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 forehead	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forehead	det
5	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kiss	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 frog	punct
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forehead	nmod

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

Option 2

a blessing from the swan-mother's wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blessing	det
2	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	9 wing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 swan	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wing	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mother	case
9	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blessing	nmod

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

Option 3

a kiss upon the forehead of the frog-child by the swan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kiss	det
2	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 forehead	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forehead	det
5	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kiss	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 child	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 frog	punct
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forehead	nmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 swan	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swan	det
13	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kiss	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss		the swan					upon the forehead of the frog child	nom kiss «act transitive»: upon=obl by=agent

Option 4

a kiss upon the cheek of the frog-girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kiss	det
2	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 cheek	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cheek	det
5	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kiss	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girl	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 frog	punct
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cheek	nmod

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

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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