Test 6 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…

dude, what did the witch do when she heard the moaning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do, hear · To what, where: witch, moaning

This is test 6 · ★ 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moaning	det
12	moaning	moaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	dude	the witch	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	do	present	dude		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	dude	the moaning	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moaning=Stimulus

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

she wailed and hid in the palace tower all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wailed	nsubj
2	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hid	cc
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wailed	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 tower	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tower	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tower	compound
8	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wailed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wail	past	she				night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hide	past	she not said here			the palace tower			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she called her guards out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 guards	nmod:poss
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 called	obj
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 called	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	she	her guards				out property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient

Option 3

she dropped the golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ring	amod
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	she	the golden ring					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she smashed the bridge to bits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	she	the bridge		bits			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme to bit=Destination

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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