Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

test: Wait, what did the witch want them to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch, them · What happens: wait, want, do · To what, where: them

This is test 6 · ★ 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 Wait	punct
3	Wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 test	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 want	obj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 want	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 witch	det
8	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 Wait	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 want	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	infinitive			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past · do-support	the witch	them = they	tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

carry water and sew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 carry	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sew	cc
4	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 carry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	water					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	sew	infinitive	you not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

spin yarn, carry water and cook the dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yarn	compound
2	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cook	cc
7	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carry	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dinner	det
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cook	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	infinitive	spin yarn	water					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	cook	infinitive	spin yarn not said here	the dinner					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

spin yarn and carry water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yarn	compound
2	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 yarn	cc
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	infinitive	spin yarn	water					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

sweep the hut and feed hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweep	sweep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sweep	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feed	cc
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 sweep	conj
6	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	imperative	you not said here	the hut					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Trajectory
2	feed	present	you not said here		hens				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient

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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