Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Prince Pink, part 36: Felicia hears her t…
So who turned the guards into cabbages?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn · To what, where: guards, cabbages
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guards | det |
| 5 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 cabbages | case |
| 7 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the guards | cabbages | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent guard=Theme into cabbage=Trajectory |
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
The fairy's rats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rats | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 fairy | case |
| 4 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The lady with the magic words, who had come from the woods with the zephyrs and the pinks
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lady | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 zephyrs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 zephyrs | det |
| 16 | zephyrs | zephyr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pinks | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pinks | det |
| 19 | pinks | pink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 zephyrs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the magic words | the woods | with the zephyrs and the pinks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The lady with the magic words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | compound |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lady | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The lady with the magic words, who had been cursed by the fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lady | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cursed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cursed | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 cursed | aux:pass |
| 11 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fairy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cursed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past · perfect · passive | the fairy | the magic words | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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