Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219…

So the landlord reckons she's a witch, sus, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: landlord · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: witch

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1008 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 219: John meets the princess and sees the garden of dead suitors» 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	_	4 reckons	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 landlord	det
3	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 witch	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 witch	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sus	punct
10	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 witch	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 witch	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the landlord						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	landlord	a witch and sus					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 is a lying fool

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	5 fool	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fool	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fool	det
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fool	amod
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	He	a lying fool					tree rules

Option 2

She is a clever maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 maid	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 maid	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a clever maid					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She is a wicked witch who has cursed every suitor in the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 witch	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 witch	det
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cursed	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cursed	aux
8	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 witch	acl:relcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 suitor	det
10	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cursed	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cursed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a wicked witch					tree rules
2	curse	present · perfect	a wicked witch	every suitor		the land			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She is a wicked witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 witch	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 witch	det
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a wicked witch					tree rules

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