Test 7 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

Was the Grandmother a proper witch, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: proper witch

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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	6 witch	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grandmother	det
3	Grandmother	Grandmother	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	6 witch	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a proper witch					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 · ✓ the right answer

people thought she was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

folk reckoned she was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	folk						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	folk						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, the villagers only thought so because she sold herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villagers	det
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thought	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 sold	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sold	nsubj
10	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	ccomp
11	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the villagers						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sell	past	she	herbs					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Theme

Option 4

people thought she was, but she was just an ordinary gran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gran	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 gran	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gran	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gran	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 gran	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gran	det
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gran	amod
12	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	people		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	she		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	she	a ordinary gran	tree rules

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