Test 9 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…
Mate, did the butler actually get to turn anyone into a pig?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: butler · What happens: get, turn · To what, where: anyone
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 butler | det |
| 5 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 turn | mark |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 turn | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pig | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pig | det |
| 13 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the butler | Mate vocative; actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | the butler not said here | anyone | into a pig result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme into pig=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 · ✓ the right answer
No, he scarpered off with the goblet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 scarpered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scarpered | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scarpered | nsubj |
| 4 | scarpered | scarper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 scarpered | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 goblet | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goblet | det |
| 8 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scarpered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scarper off | past | he | with the goblet | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, he turned one into a pig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 turned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 pig | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | he | one | into a pig result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent one=Theme into pig=Result |
Option 3
Yes, he did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
No, he dropped the cup and sat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 dropped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dropped | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | he | the cup | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | he not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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