Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34:…

Real talk, did the old man in the cave have a magic wand?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: have · To what, where: magic wand

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1975 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34: the princess helps three golden heads, wins a king, and her stepsister is sent off with sweets» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wand	det
13	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wand	amod
14	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Real talk	a magic wand					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=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

Yeah, it glowed when he waved it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 glowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 glowed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glowed	nsubj
4	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 waved	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waved	nsubj
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glowed	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 waved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wave	past	he	it					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it split the hedge when she tapped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 split	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 tapped	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tapped	nsubj
9	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 split	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	it	the hedge					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient
2	tap	past	she	hedge					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it turned the hedge to gold dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dust	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dust	compound
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, it split the hedge when she tapped it, and the old man was pleased with her

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 split	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 split	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 split	nsubj
4	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedge	det
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 split	obj
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 tapped	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tapped	nsubj
9	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 split	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tapped	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pleased	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pleased	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pleased	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pleased	cop
17	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 split	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pleased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	split	past	it	the hedge		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient
2	tap	past	she	hedge		vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location
3	is	past	the old man		with her = she; pleased property	tree rules

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