Test 5 · ★ · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

So the witch came down in an apple-tree and then turned human?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: witch · What happens: come down, turn · To what, where: apple tree

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 tree	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 apple	punct
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 turned	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 turned	advmod
13	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turned	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the witch			a apple tree		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
2	turn	past	the witch not said here				then	human property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

Yup, she went from hawk to woman on landing, right by the apple tree

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 hawk	case
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 woman	case
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 landing	case
10	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tree	punct
12	right	right	ADV	_	16 tree	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	compound
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she		woman	landing		from hawk; by the apple tree; Yup vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hawk=Initial_Location to woman=Destination

Option 2

Nah, she flew up to the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 roof	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roof	det
8	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	she					to the roof result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roof=Result

Option 3

Yup, she went from owl to man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 owl	case
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she		man	owl		Yup vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from owl=Initial_Location to man=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yup, she went from hawk to woman on landing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 hawk	case
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 woman	case
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 landing	case
10	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she		woman on landing			from hawk; Yup vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hawk=Initial_Location to woman=Destination

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