Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her t…

Why did the hen get turned into a hen anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn · To what, where: hen

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1449 «Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her true story and wins back her pinks» 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	6 turned	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hen	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj:pass
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	aux:pass
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hen	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hen	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive · do-support		the hen				into a hen result; anyway property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into hen=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

She was cursed by the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cursed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cursed	aux:pass
3	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cursed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past · passive	the King	She					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She blabbed the secret to too many people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blabbed	nsubj
2	blabbed	blab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blabbed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	2 blabbed	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blab speech: other	past	She	the secret				many people obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent secret=Topic

Option 3

She turned into a cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 cabbage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cabbage	det
5	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

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

Option 4

She blabbed the secret to too many people at the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blabbed	nsubj
2	blabbed	blab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blabbed	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	2 blabbed	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blabbed	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blab speech: other	past	She	the secret		the palace		many people obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent secret=Topic

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