Test 9 · ★ · Indian Folklore, Ball-Carrier, part 13: the witch buries t…

Is the grandmother the boss witch or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: grandmother

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grandmother	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grandmother	det
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 witch	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
5	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 witch	compound
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 witch	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct

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

Yeah, she runs the whole show and everyone obeys her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 runs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 show	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 show	amod
7	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 obeys	cc
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 obeys	nsubj
10	obeys	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 runs	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 obeys	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	she	the whole show					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme show=Trajectory
2	obey	present	everyone	her = she					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she leads the group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 leads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 leads	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leads	nsubj
4	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 group	det
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leads	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	she	the group					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she runs the whole show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 runs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 show	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 show	amod
7	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	she	the whole show					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme show=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she's just an old woman who lives alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 woman	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woman	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 woman	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lives	nsubj
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 lives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a old woman					tree rules
2	live	present	a old woman					alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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