Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

Was the witch really dead at the end or what?

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

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 dead	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 end	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the witch				at the end	dead property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the sisters finished her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 finished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 finished	nsubj
5	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 finished	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past	the sisters	her = she					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector she=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, the king finished her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 finished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	nsubj
5	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 finished	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past	the king	her = she					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector she=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the sisters finished her off with a big stone that crushed her head completely

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 finished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 finished	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 finished	nsubj
5	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 finished	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 finished	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 stone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stone	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stone	amod
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finished	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 crushed	nsubj
13	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stone	acl:relcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crushed	obj
16	completely	completely	ADV	_	13 crushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish off	past	the sisters	her = she				with a big stone	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector she=Eventuality with stone=Subeventuality
2	crush	past	a big stone	her head				completely property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she survived and ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 survived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 survived	nsubj
4	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 survived	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	she						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run away	past	she not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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