Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

the hare, bro, was it a real hare or something else?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: be · To what, where: real hare

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hare	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hare	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hare	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hare	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hare	nsubj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hare	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hare	amod
10	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 something	cc
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 hare	conj
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 something	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 hare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the hare and bro	a real hare					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

it turned into his son Jack after churchyard earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 son	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	appos
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 earth	case
8	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 earth	compound
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it				after churchyard earth	into his son result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into son=Result

Option 2

it was a magic hare that stayed a hare for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hare	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hare	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hare	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hare	amod
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hare	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hare	det
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ages	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a magic hare					tree rules
2	stay	past	a magic hare	a hare			for ages		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hare=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

it was a hare then it became a boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hare	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hare	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 became	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a hare					tree rules
2	become	past	a hare	a boy			then		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

it turned into his son after some dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 son	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 dirt	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 dirt	det
8	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it				after some dirt	into his son result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into son=Result

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