Test 5 · ★ · Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals th…

Did the witch's daughters get wrecked by the night-caps swap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: caps swap · What happens: wreck · To what, where: daughters

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1657 «Norse Tales, Esben and the Witch, part 46: Esben steals the dove, then the king asks for a golden-bristled boar» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrecked	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 witch	case
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrecked	nsubj
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrecked	aux:pass
7	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 swap	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swap	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caps	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
12	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 swap	compound
13	swap	swap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrecked	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive · do-support	the caps swap	the witch's daughters					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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

Yeah, the witch chopped them up good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	the witch	them = they				good property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, the witch chopped them up, proper nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 chopped	xcomp
10	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	the witch	them = they				proper property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the witch chopped them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 chopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chopped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopped	nsubj
5	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopped	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 chopped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	the witch	them = they					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the witch got them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the witch	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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