Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

test: Lowkey, why did the twins cry in the hut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: twins · What happens: cry · To what, where: hut

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Lowkey	punct
3	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cry	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 cry	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cry	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 twins	det
8	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cry	nsubj
9	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Lowkey	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hut	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hut	det
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cry	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	the twins			the hut			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

they could not spin the yarn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spin	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spin	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 spin	advmod
4	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 yarn	det
6	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spin	could	they	the yarn					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme

Option 2

the witch beat them again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beat	nsubj
3	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beat	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 beat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	the witch	them = they			again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3

the witch was very angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the witch					angry property	tree rules

Option 4

they were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					hungry property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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