Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the cas…

Proper gross, the witch wanted him to boil her, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch, him · What happens: want, boil · To what, where: him, witch

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1263 «Fairy Tales, The Knight of the Fish: the rescue at the castle» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 gross	advmod
2	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gross	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 boil	mark
9	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boil	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	2 gross	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the witch	him = he					tree rules
2	boil not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	witch					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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

Yeah, over a fire of dragon wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fire	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fire	punct
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	compound
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fire	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fire			dragon wood					nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, in a big tub of magic water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tub	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tub	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 tub	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tub	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tub	amod
6	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tub	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Nah, in a cold stream at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stream	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 stream	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stream	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stream	amod
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stream	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 water	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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