Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian fre…

Why's the witch wanting water from Big Women?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: be, want · To what, where: water

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1142 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian frees the knight's daughter, kills the giant, and is left behind on the island» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 witch	acl
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanting	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Women	case
8	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Women	amod
9	Women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanting	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the witch					why property	tree rules
2	want	gerund	the witch not said here	water				from Big Women	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme

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

For a bath, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 bath	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bath	det
3	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bath	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To cook the stew, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cook	mark
2	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stew	det
4	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cook	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	to-infinitive		the stew and mate					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stew=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To sort out the spell on them, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sort	mark
2	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 sort	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sort	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sort	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 sort	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	to-infinitive		the spell				on them = they	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme

Option 4

To wash the boys, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wash	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		the boys				innit obl	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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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