Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

could the swans turn back into humans, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swans · What happens: turn back

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swans	det
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 humans	case
7	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turn	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	could	the swans					into humans	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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

yes, every full moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 moon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 moon	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moon	amod
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, never again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 again	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 again	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

only once a year at the full moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 year	det
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 once	obl:unmarked
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moon	amod
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 year	nmod

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

Option 4

they can change back if they dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 change	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 dance	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dance	nsubj
7	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change back	can	they						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dance a condition, not said to happen	present	they						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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