Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

so the witch just gave up, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: give up

This is test 6 · ★ 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. 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gave	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the witch						vn resign-10.11-2 «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

walked off slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 walked	compound:prt
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	past						slowly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

sat down to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 sat	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past						down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past						home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

went back to her hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 went	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hut	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hut	nmod:poss
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past						to her hut result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result

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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