Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

wait, what was the witch's whole vibe, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, innit · To what, where: whole vibe

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 vibe	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 vibe	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 vibe	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vibe	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vibe	amod
9	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the witch's whole vibe	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

pretending to be sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 sad	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						sad property	tree rules

Option 2

pretending to be a kind old friend to everyone in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	7 friend	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 friend	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pretending	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 pretending	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund						to everyone	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a kind old friend					tree rules

Option 3

hiding her anger inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 anger	nmod:poss
3	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hiding	obj
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	1 hiding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		her anger				inside property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Patient
2	anger		her = she						nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

pretending to be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 kind	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						kind property	tree rules

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