Test 7 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Wait, why did the witch hide the bridge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, witch · What happens: wait, hide · To what, where: bridge

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1212 «Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries the gold and the bridge, and Ball-Carrier goes home» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hide	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hide	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hide	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	nsubj
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hide	past · do-support	the witch	the bridge					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient

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

To stop boats sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		boats					tree rules
2	sail	gerund							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To stop people from crossing the sea easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 crossing	mark
5	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stop	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossing	obj
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 crossing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		people					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality
2	cross	gerund		the sea				easily property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To stop people crossing easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	obj
4	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crossing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		people					tree rules
2	cross	gerund						easy property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

So the brothers cannot cross the water to the other side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 cross	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cross	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cross	advmod
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 side	amod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cross	can	the brothers	the water	the other side				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Patient to side=Recipient

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