Test 9 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

Like, what turned the second bro into a stone too?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn · To what, where: second bro, stone

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bro	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 bro	amod
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
11	too	too	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		the second bro		a stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bro=Theme into stone=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 · ✓ the right answer

turning round to look back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 turning	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 turning	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	gerund						round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	look back	to-infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

he tripped on the stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tripped	nsubj
2	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 stones	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stones	det
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	he			the stones			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he heard the mocking voices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 voices	det
4	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voices	compound
5	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	the mocking voices					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

Option 4

he stopped to rest and look back at the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stopped	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rest	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	rest	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look back	infinitive	he not said here	at the valley	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at valley=Theme

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