Test 3 · ★ · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

No cap, what did the witch's rod actually do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rod	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 witch	case
9	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	no cap					actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

turned them to stone and kept them there for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 turned	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 kept	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		them = they		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to stone=Trajectory
2	keep	past		them = they		there	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

turned every beast and traveller on the road to solid grey stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 beast	det
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 traveller	cc
5	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beast	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 stone	case
10	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stone	amod
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stone	amod
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		every beast and traveller		the road		to solid grey stone	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent beast=Theme on road=Source to stone=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

turned them to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		them = they		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 4

turned them to dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turned	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dust	mark
4	dust	dust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		them = they					tree rules
2	dust	to-infinitive							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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