Test 9 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

Who was the old woman, really?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old woman

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 really	punct
7	really	really	ADV	_	5 woman	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old woman					tree rules

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

A wicked witch, she was just pretending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 witch	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pretending	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 witch	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pretending	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretending	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 pretending	advmod
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	a wicked witch						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A kind old servant, truly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 servant	det
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 servant	amod
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 servant	punct
6	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 servant	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

An old friend of the King, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friend	amod
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
8	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 friend	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A wicked witch, and she was just pretending to be a kind old woman all along

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 witch	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pretending	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pretending	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pretending	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pretending	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 pretending	advmod
9	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 witch	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	15 woman	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 woman	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pretending	xcomp
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 along	advmod
17	along	along	ADV	_	15 woman	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	she	a wicked witch not said here					tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	she not said here	a kind old woman				along property	tree rules

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