Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, part 1: a lost king's…

The swans blow their feathers off, that's wild, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swans, that · What happens: blow off, be · To what, where: feathers

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1678 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, part 1: a lost king's bargain with a witch, and six brothers turned into swans» 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 swans	det
2	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blow	nsubj
3	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blow	obj
6	off	off	ADV	_	3 blow	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 wild	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wild	cop
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blow	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 blow	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow off	present	the swans	swans's feathers				off property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	is	present	that					wild property	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

Yeah, their swan skin falls off like a shirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 falls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 falls	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 skin	nmod:poss
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	compound
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	nsubj
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 falls	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 shirt	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shirt	det
10	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	present	their swan skin					like a shirt	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they keep them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	they	them = they					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, the skin comes off like a coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 comes	compound:prt
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 coat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 coat	det
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	present	the skin					like a coat	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, their feathers drop off like leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 drop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drop	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feathers	nmod:poss
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drop	nsubj
5	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 drop	compound:prt
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 leaves	case
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop off	present	their feathers					like leaves	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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