Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…

no way, the witch flew home and went full bananas, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: fly, go · To what, where: way, full bananas

This is test 5 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bananas	amod
11	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 went	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the witch	no way				home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the witch not said here	full bananas					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location banana=Theme

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

she cried and sank into the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sank	cc
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	she not said here			the floor			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

she fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	she					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she turned into a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 stone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she			a stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she went all to flint pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 flint	mark
5	flint	flint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flint	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					all property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	flint	to-infinitive	she not said here	pieces					tree rules

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