Test 5 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…
The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she? What did she nick?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Witch · What happens: nick, not do · To what, where: gear
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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
Sentence 1: The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Witch | det |
| 2 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nicked | nsubj |
| 3 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 7 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nicked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nicked | parataxis |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 did | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 nicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | the Witch | the Queen's gear | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not do | past | Witch | 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.
Sentence 2: What did she nick?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 nick | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nick | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nick | nsubj |
| 4 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 nick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · do-support | Witch | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
her fine clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clothes | amod |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
her fine clothes and her jewels of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clothes | amod |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 jewels | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 6 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clothes | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jewels | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
her crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | her = she | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
her golden necklace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 necklace | amod |
| 3 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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