Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Were the apples proper magic, or just a yarn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: apples · What happens: be · To what, where: proper magic

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 magic	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 apples	det
3	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 magic	nsubj
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 magic	amod
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 yarn	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 yarn	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 yarn	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 yarn	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magic	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 magic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the apples	proper magic					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 · ← Mova's choice

They turned into gold coins

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 coins	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			gold coins			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into coin=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They made a horse and soldiers pop out

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pop	cc
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pop	nsubj
7	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 pop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	They	a horse					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset horse=Product
2	pop out	present	soldiers						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They just went rotten

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	3 went	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They					rotten property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They made soup

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	They	soup					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product

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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