Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…

wait, why did the prince chuck the witch's daughter over the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: wait, chuck · To what, where: daughter, river

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chuck	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chuck	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chuck	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	nsubj
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 witch	case
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chuck	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chuck	past · do-support	the prince	the witch's daughter		the river			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme over river=Destination

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

to let the reindeer cross over safely to the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 let	mark
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cross	det
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	compound
5	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 safely	case
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	2 let	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 marsh	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 marsh	det
10	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	to-infinitive		the reindeer cross	the marsh				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cross=Theme to marsh=Recipient

Option 2

to cross the wide river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cross	mark
2	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
4	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 river	amod
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cross	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	to-infinitive		the wide river					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

Option 3

to punish her for the witch's cruel lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 punish	mark
2	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 punish	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	9 lies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lies	amod
9	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 punish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	to-infinitive		her = she				for the witch's cruel lies	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient for lie=Theme
2	lie		the witch						nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to make a bridge out of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 her	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 out	fixed
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a bridge					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Beneficiary her=Product

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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