Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her bro…

what's in the magician's brew, the potion stuff, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: brew

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1679 «Fairy Book, The Six Swans: the silent sister saves her brothers but is condemned to burn» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 brew	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brew	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 brew	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 magician	det
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brew	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 magician	case
7	brew	brew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stuff	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stuff	det
10	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stuff	compound
11	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brew	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruh	punct
13	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 brew	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 brew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the magician's brew and the potion stuff			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 · ← Mova's choice

nine herbs picked by moonlight from the graveyard, then mixed with bird feathers and water

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 herbs	nummod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 moonlight	case
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 graveyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 graveyard	det
8	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mixed	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 mixed	advmod
11	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feathers	compound
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mixed	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 water	cc
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feathers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle		nine herbs not said here				by moonlight; from the graveyard	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from graveyard=Patient
2	mix	participle		nine herbs not said here			then	with bird feathers and water	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with feather=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nine herbs picked by moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 herbs	nummod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 moonlight	case
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle		nine herbs not said here				by moonlight	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nine berries picked at sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 berries	nummod
2	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 berries	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sunrise	case
5	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle		nine berries not said here			sunrise		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nine herbs picked by moonlight and boiled with honey and a bit of owl blood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 herbs	nummod
2	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 herbs	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 moonlight	case
5	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 boiled	cc
7	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 picked	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 honey	case
9	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boiled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bit	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 honey	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 blood	case
14	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blood	compound
15	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	participle		nine herbs not said here				by moonlight	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	boil	participle						with honey and a bit of owl blood	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with honey=Instrument

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