Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the…

so the toad turned into a babe, like a whole maiden from a toad, no way?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad · What happens: turn · To what, where: babe

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 105 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: Dummling wins the crown with a carpet, a ring and a bride; then Snow-White begins» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 babe	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 babe	det
7	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 maiden	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 maiden	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 maiden	amod
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 toad	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 toad	det
15	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maiden	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 toad	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the toad			a babe		like a whole maiden from a toad and no way	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into babe=Trajectory

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

way, she was a lovely maiden who had been a toad under a spell

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maiden	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 way	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 maiden	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maiden	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maiden	amod
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toad	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 toad	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 toad	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 toad	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 toad	det
12	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 spell	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spell	det
15	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toad	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a way lovely maiden					tree rules
2	is a	past · perfect	a way lovely maiden	a toad		a spell			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she was a peasant girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 girl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 girl	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a peasant girl					tree rules

Option 3

nah, the toad turned into a frog and then a stone statue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toad	det
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 frog	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frog	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 statue	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 statue	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 statue	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 statue	compound
13	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frog	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the toad					into a frog and a stone statue result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into frog=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

way, she was a lovely maiden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maiden	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 way	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 maiden	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 maiden	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 maiden	amod
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					way obl:unmarked; maiden property	tree rules

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