Test 9 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Pinkel, part 27: Pinkel steals the witch'…

Did the witch come after Pinkel in the boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: come · To what, where: boat

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1161 «Pink Fairy Book, Pinkel, part 27: Pinkel steals the witch's golden lantern and then her goat, while his jealous brothers plot against him» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 Pinkel	case
6	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boat	det
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	the witch			the boat	after Pinkel		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Location

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

Yeah, she chased him in a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	she	him = he		a boat			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in boat=Trajectory

Option 2

Nah, she had no power on the water so she stayed behind shouting curses at him

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stayed	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 stayed	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stayed	nsubj
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 shouting	mark
14	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stayed	advcl
15	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shouting	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shouting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no power	the water		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	stay	past	she				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shout speech: express	gerund	she not said here	curses		at him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she had no power on the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 power	det
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	no power		the water			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she was too slow to catch him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 slow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 catch	mark
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 slow	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					slow property	tree rules
2	catch	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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