Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

What did that sword do to stuff it touched?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sword · What happens: stuff, touch · To what, where: sword

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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	7 stuff	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	aux
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sword	det
4	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stuff	mark
7	stuff	stuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	nsubj:pass
9	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stuff	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stuff	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	past · do-support	that sword						tree rules
2	touch	participle · passive		sword					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

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

turned it into stone there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		it		stone; there			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 2

it melts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	it						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

burned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 burned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

turned it all to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 it	det
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		it		ashes			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ash=Trajectory

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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