Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Son…

Mental, what happens if Jack stirs in bed, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mental, Jack · What happens: happen, stir, innit · To what, where: bed

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 254 «English Fairy Tales, The King of England and His Three Sons, part 1: Jack rides off for golden apples and meets three strange old men» 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	Mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happens	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mental	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 stirs	mark
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stirs	nsubj
7	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stirs	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 happens	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	present	Mental		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stir a condition, not said to happen	present	Jack	bed	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location
3	innit	infinitive	Mental not said here		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

He sleeps forever

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 sleeps	nsubj
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 sleeps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	He					forever property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He is turned to stone

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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

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

Option 3

He is turned into a snake

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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 snake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present · passive		He				into a snake result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into snake=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He turns into one of them

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 one	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 turns	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	He					into one of them	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory

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