Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

wait so the ravens were her brothers the whole time, right? no cap

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, ravens · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: cap, brothers

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 779 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister frees her ravens, Mrs Fox tests her suitors, and a huntsman gets a magic cloak» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 brothers	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ravens	det
4	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brothers	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brothers	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	no cap			time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the ravens	her brothers					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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, seven brothers turned into ravens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 ravens	case
7	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl

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

Option 2

yep, seven brothers turned into ravens by a wicked witch's spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 ravens	case
7	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 spell	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 witch	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 witch	amod
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spell	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 witch	case
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	seven brothers			ravens		by a wicked witch's spell	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into raven=Source by spell=Trajectory
2	spell		a wicked witch						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

nope, the ravens were seven brothers who got turned into birds by their stepmother long ago

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 brothers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ravens	det
4	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brothers	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brothers	cop
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brothers	nummod
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 turned	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brothers	acl:relcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 birds	case
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 stepmother	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stepmother	nmod:poss
15	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 ago	advmod
17	ago	ago	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ravens	seven brothers					tree rules
2	turn	past · passive	ravens's stepmother	seven brothers				into birds result; ago property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into bird=Result

Option 4

yep, they were seven crows instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 crows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 crows	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crows	cop
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 crows	nummod
6	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 crows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	seven crows				instead property	tree rules

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