Test 9 · ★ · tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Prince…

Blud, who was the witch that cursed him then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blud, witch · What happens: be, curse · To what, where: witch, Blud

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1530 «tales pg540, The Princess and the Pig, part 27: the Princess climbs a ladder of chicken bones and finds her Pig husband» 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	Blud	Blud	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blud	appos
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cursed	nsubj
8	cursed	curse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cursed	obj
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 cursed	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Blud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Blud	the witch					tree rules
2	curse	past	the witch	Blud			then		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The mother of the dragon he slew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dragon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slew	nsubj
7	slew	slay	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	slay	past	the mother of the dragon						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The witch who lived near the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 witch	acl:relcl
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the witch			the river			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location

Option 3

The sister of the dragon he killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dragon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj
7	killed	kill	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	kill	past	the sister of the dragon						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The mother of the dragon he slew in the mountains of the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dragon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 slew	nsubj
7	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mountains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountains	det
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 slew	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 north	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 north	det
13	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mountains	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past	the mother of the dragon			the mountains of the north			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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