Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disgu…

When the sun dipped, did the swans turn into her brothers, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sun, swans · What happens: dip, do, turn

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1021 «Andersen's Tales, The Wild Swans, part 232: Eliza is disguised, wanders the forest and shore, and meets her swan brothers at sunset» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dipped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dipped	nsubj
4	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dipped	punct
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 swans	det
8	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	nsubj
9	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	ccomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 brothers	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brothers	nmod:poss
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turn	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brothers	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dip	past	the sun		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			tree rules
3	turn	present	the swans	into sun's brothers no cap result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into brother=Result

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

Nah, the crowns fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crowns	det
4	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	the crowns						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they stayed swans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they	swans					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme swan=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No cap, the feathers fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 feathers	det
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	no cap						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Yep, they sank into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	they			the sea			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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