Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances int…

Wait, what happened to the geese in the end, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, happen · To what, where: end

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 245 «English Fairy Tales, Tattercoats: the goosegirl dances into the ball and is crowned Princess, and the gooseherd vanishes» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 geese	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 geese	det
7	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 real	case
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 real	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past					in the end	to the geese	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location

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

They turned into posh pages with her train and stood at the door of the hall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pages	case
4	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pages	amod
5	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 train	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 train	nmod:poss
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hall	det
16	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			posh pages		with her train	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into page=Trajectory
2	stand	past	They not said here			the door of the hall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They turned into posh pages with her train

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pages	case
4	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pages	amod
5	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 train	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 train	nmod:poss
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			posh pages		with her train	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into page=Trajectory

Option 3

They changed into maids who held her gown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 maids	case
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 changed	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 held	nsubj
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 maids	acl:relcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gown	nmod:poss
8	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	They					into maids result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into maid=Result
2	hold	past	maids	her gown					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme

Option 4

They turned into posh pages with her train, and the King laughed to see it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 pages	case
4	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pages	amod
5	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 train	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 train	nmod:poss
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 laughed	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They		posh pages	with her train	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into page=Trajectory
2	laugh	past	the King				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the King not said here	train			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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