Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

so it was one feather that turned into five dead hens??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, one feather · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: one feather

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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	_	5 feather	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feather	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feather	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feather	nummod
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feather	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 hens	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hens	nummod
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hens	amod
11	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obl
12	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 feather	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	one feather					tree rules
2	turn	past	one feather					into five dead hens result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hen=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

Yeah, one little feather grew into five dead hens and the whole yard got dramatic, lol

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feather	nummod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feather	amod
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 hens	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hens	nummod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hens	amod
10	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 yard	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 yard	amod
14	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	nsubj
15	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
16	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dramatic	punct
18	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 grew	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	one little feather					into five dead hens result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hen=Result
2	get	past	the whole yard					dramatic property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, one little feather grew into five hens, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 feather	nummod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feather	amod
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hens	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hens	nummod
9	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 grew	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	one little feather					into five hens result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hen=Result

Option 3

Nah, the whole yard saw a feather and somehow five hens ended up dead, lol

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 yard	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 yard	amod
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 feather	det
8	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ended	cc
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	11 five	advmod
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hens	nummod
12	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ended	nsubj
13	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 ended	compound:prt
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ended	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
17	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 saw	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the whole yard	a feather					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus
2	end up	past	five hens					dead property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nah, one feather became five dead hens, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 became	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 feather	nummod
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hens	nummod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hens	amod
8	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 became	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	one feather	five dead hens					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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