Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

yo did the dancers and pipers actually get turned into herons yet or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: do, turn · To what, where: dancers

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dancers	det
4	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pipers	cc
6	pipers	piper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dancers	conj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
8	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	aux:pass
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dancers	acl:relcl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 herons	case
11	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 turned	obl
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 nah	cc
14	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 turned	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the dancers and pipers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancer=Eventuality
2	turn	present · passive		the dancers and pipers not said here			yet	into herons result; actually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: into heron=Result

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

not yet, because the queen had first to travel to the spaewife of Ostree

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 had	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 travel	mark
10	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 spaewife	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spaewife	det
13	spaewife	spaewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Ostree	case
15	Ostree	Ostree	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 spaewife	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the queen				yet	first property	tree rules
2	travel	to-infinitive	the queen not said here			the spaewife of Ostree			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spaewife=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

not yet, the queen had to ask the spaewife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spaewife	det
10	spaewife	spaewife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the queen				yet		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	the spaewife					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spaewife=Recipient

Option 3

not yet, for the queen still had to go to the cave and ask first

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 yet	advmod
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 yet	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cave	det
13	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	conj
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		yet; still	for the queen	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the cave			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yes, they turned into herons at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 herons	case
6	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they					into herons	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heron=Source at once=Trajectory

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