Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

So the walking-stick turned into a horse, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: walking stick · What happens: turn

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stick	det
3	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 walking	punct
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 horse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 horse	det
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 turned	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle	the walking stick					into a horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into horse=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it turned into a neighing horse and then galloped right across the lawn, proper wicked

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	into	into	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	neighing	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 galloped	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 galloped	advmod
11	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	11 galloped	advmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 lawn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lawn	det
15	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 galloped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wicked	punct
17	proper	properly	ADV	_	18 wicked	advmod
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	it			into a neighing horse result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into horse=Result
2	neigh	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gallop	past		the lawn	then	right property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lawn=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, a neighing horse, proper wicked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	neighing	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wicked	punct
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 wicked	advmod
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, it stayed a stick, weird though

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weird	punct
8	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	parataxis
9	though	though	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it	a stick				though property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme stick=Location

Option 4

Yeah, a neighing horse with a black mane, proper wicked and all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 horse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horse	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	neighing	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 mane	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mane	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mane	amod
9	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wicked	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wicked	amod
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 all	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 wicked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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