Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56…

Bellah's stick turned into a horse, wicked, yeah?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1331 «Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad» 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	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stick	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Bellah	case
3	stick	stick	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 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wicked	punct
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wicked	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Bellah's stick					into a horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into horse=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 · ← Mova's choice

Dead wicked, with rosettes and a feather on its head and iron shoes that clattered on the stones

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rosettes	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rosettes	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 rosettes	case
5	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feather	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feather	det
8	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rosettes	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feather	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shoes	cc
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoes	compound
14	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 head	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 clattered	nsubj
16	clattered	clatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shoes	acl:relcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 stones	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stones	det
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 clattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clatter	past	iron shoes			the stones			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dead wicked, with rosettes and a feather on its head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rosettes	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rosettes	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 rosettes	case
5	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feather	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feather	det
8	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rosettes	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feather	nmod

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

Option 3

Dead wicked, with a saddle and a bell on its neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 wicked	advmod
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saddle	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saddle	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 saddle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 saddle	det
6	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bell	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bell	det
9	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saddle	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 neck	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bell	nmod

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

Option 4

Nah, it was dead slow, with a bridle and a saddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 slow	amod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bridle	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bridle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bridle	det
10	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slow	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saddle	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 saddle	det
13	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bridle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					with a bridle and a saddle; slow property	tree rules

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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