Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier…

Was she actually a proper nasty Witch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be · To what, where: proper nasty Witch

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1737 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 61: a Soldier gets rich from three dogs and a witch's trick» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Witch	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Witch	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 Witch	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Witch	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Witch	amod
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Witch	amod
7	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Witch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a proper nasty Witch				actually property	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

Nah, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nah, she was well nice, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nice	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 nice	advmod
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nice	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					mate vocative; nice, well property	tree rules

Option 3

Dunno, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was well dodgy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dodgy	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dodgy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dodgy	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dodgy	advmod
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dodgy	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					mate vocative; dodgy, well 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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