Test 10 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Bear, part 21: the prince…

what's the scissors thing, is it a magic gadget or just rubbish?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic gadget, thing · What happens: be · To what, where: scissors thing, magic gadget

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1296 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Bear, part 21: the princess loses her children one by one, then follows her husband on the last journey» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 thing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thing	compound
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gadget	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gadget	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gadget	nsubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gadget	det
10	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gadget	amod
11	gadget	gadget	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 rubbish	cc
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 rubbish	advmod
14	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gadget	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 gadget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a magic gadget or rubbish	the scissors thing					tree rules
2	is a	present	thing	a magic gadget or rubbish					tree rules

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

magic, anything it snips is silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 anything	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 magic	punct
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 silver	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snips	nsubj
5	snips	snip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 anything	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 silver	cop
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snip	present	it						vn cut-21.1-1 «NP.instrument V ADVP»: agent=Instrument
2	is a	present	anything	silver					tree rules

Option 2

magic, anything it cuts turns to silk but only at midnight under the moon

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 anything	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 magic	punct
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 cuts	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cuts	nsubj
5	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cuts	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 silk	mark
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cuts	xcomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 midnight	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 midnight	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 midnight	case
12	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 silk	conj
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 moon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moon	det
15	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cuts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	anything	turns		the moon			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material turn=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

magic, anything it cuts turns to silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 anything	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 magic	punct
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 cuts	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cuts	nsubj
5	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cuts	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 silk	mark
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cuts	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	anything	turns					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material turn=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a magic gadget that can cut through stone and turn any wood into silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gadget	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gadget	amod
3	gadget	gadget	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cut	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gadget	acl:relcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 stone	case
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turn	cc
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	conj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 silk	case
14	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	can	a magic gadget					through stone	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through stone=Patient
2	turn	infinitive	a magic gadget not said here	any wood		silk			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wood=Theme into silk=Trajectory

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