Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

test: Mate, why did the old Queen just laugh it off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old Queen · What happens: laugh off · To what, where: test

This is test 2 · ★ 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	11 laugh	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Mate	punct
3	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 laugh	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Queen	amod
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 laugh	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 laugh	advmod
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 laugh	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past · do-support	the old Queen	test and Mate					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

she thought the Fairy had him covered

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	the Fairy	him = he	tree rules
3	cover	participle	him = he not said here		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

she had seen the Fairy protect him and was amused by his cheek

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	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fairy	det
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
6	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seen	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 protect	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 amused	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 amused	aux:pass
10	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seen	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 cheek	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheek	nmod:poss
13	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 amused	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	she	the Fairy		tree rules
2	protect	infinitive	the Fairy not said here		Fairy	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	amuse	past · passive	Fairy's cheek			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

she thought the Fairy had him covered by magic

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obj
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 magic	case
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	the Fairy	him = he		tree rules
3	cover	participle	him = he not said here		by magic	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

she knew the Sun would save him

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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 save	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 save	aux
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	save	would	the Sun	him = he					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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