Test 5 · ★ · Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the…

When the hermit got his mad curse on, what did he want?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hermit · What happens: get on, want, curse · To what, where: mad curse

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1809 «Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end» 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 want	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 curse	nmod:poss
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 curse	amod
7	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	4 got	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 want	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get on	past	the hermit	hermit's mad curse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curse=Stimulus
2	want	past · do-support	hermit		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	curse		hermit		nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

the thief swapped sexes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	nsubj
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sexes	sex	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	the thief	sexes					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sex=Theme

Option 2

the thief to be turned into a toad for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 turned	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thief	acl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 toad	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 toad	det
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	to-infinitive · passive						into a toad result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: into toad=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the thief to be cursed to wander the roads for seven years with no food

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cursed	nsubj:pass
3	to	to	PART	_	5 cursed	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cursed	aux:pass
5	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wander	mark
7	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cursed	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roads	det
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wander	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wander	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 food	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 food	det
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wander	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	to-infinitive · passive		the thief					tree rules
2	wander	to-infinitive		the roads			year	with no food	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme road=Trajectory

Option 4

the thief went blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the thief					blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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