Test 1 · ★ · Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: t…

So the giant wanted the kid turned into a pie, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant, kid · What happens: want, turn · To what, where: pie

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1518 «Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince» 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	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pie	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pie	det
10	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yeah	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the giant						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	turn	past	the kid			a pie			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into pie=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

a hare was put instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		a hare				instead property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

Option 2

a wild boar was put in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boar	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boar	amod
3	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in	past · passive		a wild boar					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

Option 3

a wild pig was secretly swapped in for the kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pig	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pig	amod
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swapped	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swapped	aux:pass
5	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	6 swapped	advmod
6	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	6 swapped	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 kid	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap in	past · passive		a wild pig				for the kid; secretly property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: subject=Theme for kid=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a wild pig was swapped in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pig	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pig	amod
3	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swapped	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swapped	aux:pass
5	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap in	past · passive		a wild pig					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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