Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Was the witch's hut sick or just ruined, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, ruin, innit · To what, where: hut

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hut	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hut	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 witch	case
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sick	obl
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 ruined	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 ruined	advmod
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sick	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sick	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the witch's hut	tree rules
2	ruin	participle		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive		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

Burned to ashes by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 ashes	case
3	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burned	obl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle						to ashes; by the fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location

Option 2

Razed to the ground, completely flattened, with not a single stone left standing, bruv

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Razed	raze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Razed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flattened	punct
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	7 flattened	advmod
7	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Razed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 left	mark
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 stone	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	nsubj
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flattened	conj
15	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 left	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Razed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raze	participle		bruv	to the ground	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	flatten	participle			completely property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	leave	past	a single stone			tree rules
4	stand	gerund	a single stone not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Razed to the ground, flattened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Razed	raze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Razed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flattened	punct
6	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Razed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raze	participle						to the ground	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	flatten	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Razed to the ground, flattened, and the ashes scattered across the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Razed	raze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 scattered	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Razed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flattened	punct
6	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Razed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scattered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scattered	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ashes	det
10	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scattered	nsubj:pass
11	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scattered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raze	participle			to the ground	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	flatten	participle				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	scatter	participle · passive	the ashes	the field		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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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