Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is…

how did the hunter and wife end up as a frog and toad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hunter · What happens: do, end up

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hunter	det
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunter	conj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 frog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 frog	det
11	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 toad	cc
13	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 frog	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the hunter and wife					as a frog and toad	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

the witch turned them into animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the witch	them = they				into animals result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme into animal=Result

Option 2

the nixy put a spell on them at the pond and the flood carried them off

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nixy	det
2	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carried	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flood	det
13	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	nsubj
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 carried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the nixy	a spell		the pond		on them = they	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on they=Destination
2	carry off	past	the flood	them = they					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

they ate a magic apple and the flood turned them into little frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 apple	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 apple	amod
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flood	det
8	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 frogs	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 frogs	amod
13	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	a magic apple					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
2	turn	past	the flood	them = they				into little frogs result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme into frog=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the flood turned them into animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flood	det
2	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 animals	case
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the flood	them = they				into animals result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Theme into animal=Result

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