Test 5 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…

okay, so what did the two bits of wood do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two bits · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bits	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bits	nummod
8	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 wood	case
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bits	nmod
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the two bits of wood						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

answered the witch for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 answered	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 answered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the witch			for them = they	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality

Option 2

threw them in the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past		them = they		the fire			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fire=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

carried the couple out of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past		the couple		the hall			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent couple=Theme out hall=Initial_Location

Option 4

answered the witch and then fell silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 answered	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fell	advmod
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 answered	conj
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the witch				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	fall	past					then	silent property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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