Test 3 · ★ · Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished…

Bro, why was the witch so fast in the race?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: witch

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1211 «Myths and Legends of the Sioux, How Ball-carrier Finished His Task, part 12: Lung-Woman is scalded and the Bad One drowns» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 race	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 witch	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 race	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 race	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 race	det
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 race	punct

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

She was cheating with her crazy powers

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	3 cheating	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheating	aux
3	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 powers	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 powers	nmod:poss
6	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 powers	amod
7	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cheating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past · progressive	She					with her crazy powers	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Her crazy powers let her turn into many different birds and fly across the whole sky at once

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 powers	nmod:poss
2	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 powers	amod
3	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 birds	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 birds	amod
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 birds	amod
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fly	cc
12	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
13	across	across	ADP	_	16 sky	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sky	amod
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Her crazy powers	her = she			tree rules
2	turn	infinitive	her = she not said here			into many different birds result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result
3	fly	infinitive	Her crazy powers not said here		the whole sky		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3

Her wings were made of strong magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 magic	case
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 magic	amod
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Her wings				of strong magic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

She used her spirit helpers to win

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	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 helpers	nmod:poss
4	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helpers	compound
5	helpers	helper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 win	mark
7	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	She	her spirit helpers					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Patient
2	win	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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