Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

dude was the princess a total witch or just moody?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be · To what, where: princess

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 princess	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 princess	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 princess	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 moody	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 moody	advmod
10	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dude	the princess					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

She was a witch, mate, and she turned into a swan when she went under the water

The tree, 17 words

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	4 witch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witch	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	parataxis
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 swan	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 swan	det
13	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 went	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	advcl
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a witch and mate		tree rules
2	turn	past	she		a swan	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into swan=Trajectory
3	go	past	she		the water	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location

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

She was a witch, mate

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	4 witch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witch	conj

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

Option 3

Honestly she was a proper witch, mate, who could change herself into a black swan at will.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 witch	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 witch	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 witch	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 change	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 change	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 change	aux
12	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 witch	parataxis
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 change	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 swan	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 swan	det
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swan	amod
17	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 change	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 will	case
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 change	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a proper witch				mate vocative; honestly property	tree rules
2	change	could	a proper witch	herself = she				into a black swan result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into swan=Result

Option 4

Totally a princess, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	3 princess	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 princess	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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