Test 3 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

Bruv, why was she a horrible owl in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: horrible owl, first place

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 owl	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Bruv	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 owl	cop
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 owl	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 owl	det
7	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 owl	amod
8	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 place	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 place	amod
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owl	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 owl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	a horrible owl		the first place			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

A magic drink turned her, given by the old magician Kaschnur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 turned	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 magician	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 magician	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 magician	amod
11	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	obl
12	Kaschnur	Kaschnur	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 magician	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	a magic drink	her = she					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result
2	give	participle	a magic drink not said here					by the old magician	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A nasty potion did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 potion	det
2	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 potion	amod
3	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	a nasty potion	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A magic drink turned her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	a magic drink	her = she					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme she=Result

Option 4

She drank a magic drink that the magician gave her in a cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drink	det
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 gave	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cup	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cup	det
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	She	a magic drink					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	give	past	the magician		her = she	a cup			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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