Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56…

Why did the horse grow wings, though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse · What happens: grow · To what, where: wings

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grow	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grow	nsubj
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 grow	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · do-support	the horse	wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=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

Coz the Groac'h cursed it so it could fly over the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	4 cursed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Groac'h	det
3	Groac'h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cursed	nsubj
4	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cursed	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cursed	advcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past	the Groac'h	it					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fly	could	Groac'h			the hill			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coz it couldn't climb the Leap of the Deer, nothing could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	5 climb	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 climb	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 climb	advmod
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 could	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Leap	det
7	Leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Deer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Deer	det
10	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Leap	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 climb	punct
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	could	it	the Leap of the Deer					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leap=Theme
2	leap			the Deer					nom leap «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Coz it wanted to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	3 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Coz it had to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coz	because	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it						tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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