Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

How did the witch respond upon discovering that the children had escaped her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, discover, escape · To what, where: witch respond, children

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 respond	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 respond	compound
5	respond	respond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 discovering	mark
7	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 escaped	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 escaped	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 escaped	aux
12	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 discovering	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 escaped	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the witch respond	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respond=Eventuality
2	discover	gerund		vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	escape	past · perfect · passive	the children	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

She flew off on her broom to find them again.

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 broom	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 broom	nmod:poss
6	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flew	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 find	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	She			her broom			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on broom=Location
2	find	to-infinitive	She not said here	them = they			again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She grew furious and struck the cat.

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 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 struck	cc
5	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 struck	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	She					furious property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	strike	past	She not said here	the cat					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent cat=Instrument

Option 3

She fled into the dark woods.

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 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woods	amod
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fled	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	She			the dark woods			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location

Option 4

She grew furious and chased the children into the forest.

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 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chased	cc
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	She					furious property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	past	She not said here	the children		the forest			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme into forest=Trajectory

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