Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, Cinderella, part 30: three feasts, three tasks and…

Bro, what's the deal with the birch tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1533 «Grimm, Cinderella, part 30: three feasts, three tasks and a lost ring, slipper and circlet» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	the deal				with the birch tree	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 · ← Mova's choice

It's just a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tree	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tree	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 tree	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a tree					tree rules

Option 2

The birch is where the witch hides her magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birch	det
2	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 where	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	cop
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hides	nsubj
7	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	advcl:relcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 magic	nmod:poss
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hides	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the birch					where property	tree rules
2	hide	present	the witch	witch's magic					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, it's a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 tree	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tree	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	a tree					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her mum's ghost talks to her from the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ghost	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mum	case
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talks	nsubj
5	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talks	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 grave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grave	det
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Her mum's ghost		her = she	the grave			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
2	ghost		Her mum						nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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