Test 11 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…

How did the sisters pack their gaffs up, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: be, pack up · To what, where: gaffs

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1531 «Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pack	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pack	nsubj
5	pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 like	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gaffs	nmod:poss
7	gaffs	gaff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pack	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 pack	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pack	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						how property	tree rules
2	pack up	present	the sisters	sisters's gaffs					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gaff=Theme

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

They sold them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	They	them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They made them into eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	They	them = they		eggs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into egg=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They turned them into eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 eggs	case
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They	them = they		eggs			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into egg=Trajectory

Option 4

They made them into stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 stones	case
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	They	them = they		stones			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into stone=Product

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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