Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Okay, so who even is Mother Holle, like a witch or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Mother

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 Mother	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 Mother	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Mother	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	7 Mother	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Mother	cop
7	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mother	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 witch	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 witch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Mother	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 witch	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Mother	punct

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

A kind old lady with feathers flying everywhere in her big house on the hill

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lady	nmod
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 feathers	acl
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 flying	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flying	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	feathers not said here			her big house on the hill		everywhere property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A kind old lady who lives under the well and shakes feathers everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shakes	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lady	acl:relcl
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lives	cc
11	shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shakes	obj
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 shakes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a kind old lady			the well			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under well=Location
2	shake	present	a kind old lady	feathers				everywhere property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A kind old lady with feathers everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 feathers	case
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lady	nmod
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 feathers	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A grumpy old witch with a broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
2	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 broom	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 broom	det
7	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witch	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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