Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

so the good cabbage flipped them back to humans, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: good cabbage · What happens: flip back · To what, where: them, humans

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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	_	5 flipped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cabbage	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cabbage	amod
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flipped	nsubj
5	flipped	flip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flipped	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 flipped	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 humans	case
9	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flipped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	5 flipped	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 flipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flip back	past	the good cabbage	them = they	humans				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme to human=Destination

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

nope, they stayed donkeys until the witch came back and changed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	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	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 changed	cc
12	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stay	past	they	donkeys	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme donkey=Location
2	come back	past	the witch		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	change	past	they not said here	donkeys = donkey	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

yeah, they were men again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 men	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 men	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 men	cop
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 men	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	men			again		tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, they were human again after eating the good cabbage in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 human	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 human	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 human	cop
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 human	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 human	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cabbage	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cabbage	amod
11	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cabbage	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				again	human property	tree rules
2	eat	gerund	they not said here	the good cabbage		the garden			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, they were human again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 human	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 human	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 human	cop
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 human	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they				again	human property	tree rules

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