Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…

mate, why did they tie strings to the princess's waist?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: tie · To what, where: strings

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tie	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tie	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tie	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tie	nsubj
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tie	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 waist	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 waist	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 princess	case
12	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · do-support	they	strings				to the princess's waist; mate vocative	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient to waist=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

so the wind couldn't blow her off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 blow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 blow	advmod
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blow	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 blow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not blow off	could	the wind	her = she					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

so the wind couldn't blow her off the high cliffs into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 blow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 blow	advmod
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blow	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	11 cliffs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cliffs	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cliffs	amod
11	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blow	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not blow	could	the wind	her = she		the sea		off the high cliffs	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient off cliff=Co-Patient

Option 3

so the wind couldn't blow her away while the king watched from his tower

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 blow	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 blow	advmod
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blow	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 blow	advmod
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 watched	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watched	nsubj
12	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blow	advcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 tower	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tower	nmod:poss
15	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not blow away	could	the wind	her = she				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	watch	past	the king			king's tower			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4

so the crowd could pull her back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pull	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	could	the crowd	her = she					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result

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