Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

so what's the magic wand for, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magic wand · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: magic wand

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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	_	6 wand	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wand	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wand	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wand	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wand	amod
6	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 innit	mark
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wand	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the magic wand					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the magic wand not said here						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

to cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cook	mark
2	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	to-infinitive							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

to free the sisters and the brothers from the old man's spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 free	mark
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sisters	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brothers	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sisters	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	13 spell	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spell	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 man	case
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sisters	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell		the old man						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to free the sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 free	mark
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sisters	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to free the sisters and turn the stones back into men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 free	mark
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sisters	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sisters	cc
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stones	det
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 men	case
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	the free sisters	the stones				into men	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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