Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

Did the foals actually turn back into princes or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: foals · What happens: turn back

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foals	det
3	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 princes	case
8	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 princes	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past · do-support	the foals					into princes; actually property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, they stayed foals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	they	foals					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme foal=Location

Option 2

Nah, they just ran off after that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	they				after that		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they became proper princes again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princes	amod
6	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 became	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	proper princes			again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, they went back to being men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 men	cop
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	they						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	gerund						to men	tree rules

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