Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the bo…

Why'd the witch fly off on a broomstick?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: fly off · To what, where: broomstick

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1189 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Bird of Truth, part 55: the boy takes the white bird from the aviary, the enchanted water frees the captives, and the courtiers plot against the bird» 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=Int	5 fly	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 broomstick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 broomstick	det
9	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	would	the witch			a broomstick			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on broomstick=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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the captives went back to being people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captives	det
3	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 people	cop
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the captives						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	gerund						to people	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the captives all went back to being people, so she fled the tower in a hurry on her broomstick

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 captives	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captives	det
3	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 people	cop
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fled	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 fled	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fled	nsubj
13	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tower	det
15	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fled	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hurry	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hurry	det
18	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fled	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 broomstick	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 broomstick	nmod:poss
21	broomstick	broomstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hurry	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past				cos the captives; all property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	gerund				to people	tree rules
3	flee	past	she	the tower	a hurry on her broomstick		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tower=Initial_Location

Option 3

Because the boy broke her spell at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 broke	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spell	nmod:poss
6	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 broke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the boy	her spell		last			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient
2	spell		her = she						nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Cos the captives went back to being people and she lost her power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 captives	det
3	captives	captive	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 people	cop
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lost	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
11	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 power	nmod:poss
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the captives			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	is	gerund			to people	tree rules
3	lose	past	she	her power		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality

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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