Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coi…

What did the water do, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: water · What happens: do · To what, where: water

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 218 «Arabian Nights, Sidi-Nouman, part 58: a dog spots fake coins and is freed by a magician's daughter» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the water and fam					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality
2	do	present	the water and fam not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It turned him back into a man as he had been before the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 turned	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 spell	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spell	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spell	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 spell	cop
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 spell	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spell	det
14	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	It	him = he				into a man	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	man				before the spell		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Turned him back to a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turned	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Turned	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past		him = he	a man				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to man=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Made him sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		him = he					tree rules
2	sleep	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Changed him into a boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Changed	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 boy	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past		him = he				into a boy result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into boy=Result

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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