Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Did the witch get what she deserved, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, get, deserve · To what, where: witch

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 deserved	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deserved	nsubj
7	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 get	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the witch	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	get	present			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	deserve	past	she		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, mate, she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yeah, she died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she ate it and got away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	she	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	get away	past	she not said here					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she ate the poisoned cake and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cake	det
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cake	amod
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 died	cc
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	past	she	the poisoned cake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	poison	participle			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	die	past	she not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1456-pg503-part43/t4/