Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed pri…

Oi, was Darling proper mental for getting turned into a monster, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: be, turn

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1479 «Fairy Tales (pg503), Prince Darling, part 66: a cursed prince becomes a monster and then a little dog» 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	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Darling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Darling	cop
4	Darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 mental	advmod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Darling	conj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 turned	mark
8	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mental	advcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 monster	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 monster	det
12	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 Darling	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Darling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Oi	darling property	tree rules
2	be		Oi not said here	properly property	tree rules
3	turn	gerund · passive	Oi not said here	into a monster result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: into monster=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

Nah, bad luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 bad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	amod
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, a witch cursed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cursed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cursed	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	nsubj
5	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cursed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	participle	a witch	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, his own nastiness did it, cos the Fairy warned him loads before

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nastiness	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nastiness	amod
5	nastiness	nastiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 before	aux
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 warned	punct
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 warned	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fairy	det
11	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 warned	nsubj
12	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 did	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 warned	obj
14	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 warned	obj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the Fairy	loads	him = he				tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, his own nastiness did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nastiness	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nastiness	amod
5	nastiness	nastiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	his own nastiness	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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