Test 3 · ★ · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t…

no cap, what was the bird's deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 deal	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bird	case
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap and the bird's deal	the bird's deal					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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he used to be a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 king	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 king	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	a king					tree rules

Option 2

he used to be a king until he got too proud of his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 king	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 king	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	xcomp
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	advcl
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 proud	advmod
11	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 crown	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 crown	nmod:poss
14	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	he			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive	he not said here	a king		tree rules
3	get	past	king		proud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	crown		king			nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

he got turned into it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		he		it			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into it=Trajectory

Option 4

he was a king who got cursed by Circe for being way too proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 king	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 king	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cursed	nsubj
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cursed	aux:pass
7	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 king	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Circe	case
9	Circe	circe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursed	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 way	cop
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cursed	obl
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 proud	advmod
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a king		tree rules
2	curse	past · passive	Circe	a king		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	is	gerund			for way	tree rules

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