Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

Did Ulysses get turned into a hog or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: turn · To what, where: Ulysses, hog

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	aux:pass
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 hog	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hog	det
7	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hog	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

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

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

No, he became a fine hog after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hog	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hog	amod
7	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 became	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	he	a fine hog			after all		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

No, he stayed a man and looked even more kingly than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 kingly	advmod
11	kingly	kingly	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 before	case
13	before	before	ADV	_	11 kingly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he	a man					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	look	past	he not said here					kingly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, he became a hog but then changed back into a man at dusk

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hog	det
6	hog	hog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 changed	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 changed	advmod
9	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 changed	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 dusk	case
15	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	he	a hog					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	change back	past	he not said here				then; dusk	into a man result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, he stayed a man and looked even more kingly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 kingly	advmod
11	kingly	kingly	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he	a man					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	look	past	he not said here					kingly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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