Test 4 · ★ · White Cat, Princess Felicia: a magic wedding and a palace…

The Queen dropped her wand and the cottage went from broke to bussin'.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Queen, cottage · What happens: drop, go, break · To what, where: wand

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1450 «White Cat, Princess Felicia: a magic wedding and a palace for Bruno» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wand	nmod:poss
5	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cottage	det
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 broke	case
11	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 bussin	case
13	bussin	bussin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broke	obl
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 bussin	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the Queen	Queen's wand		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
2	go	past	the cottage			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	break	past	the cottage not said here		to bussin result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to bussin=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

Went from broke to bussin' with golden walls and fountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	aux
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 broke	case
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bussin	case
5	bussin	bussin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bussin	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 walls	amod
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 broke	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fountains	cc
11	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 walls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past						to bussin result; with golden walls and fountains	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent to bussin=Result with wall=Instrument

Option 2

Turned from poor to rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 poor	case
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Turned	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 rich	case
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle				poor		to rich result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from poor=Initial_State to rich=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Went from broke to bussin'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	aux
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 broke	case
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 bussin	case
5	bussin	bussin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 bussin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past						to bussin result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to bussin=Result

Option 4

The cottage went from broke to bussin' overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cottage	det
2	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cottage	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	3 went	obl
5	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bussin	case
7	bussin	bussin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broke	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 bussin	punct
9	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the cottage not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	past	the cottage					to bussin result; overnight property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to bussin=Result

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