Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod…

Who was the Witch, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Witch

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1746 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hadvor and Hermod: Hadvor frees Hermod, and Hermod becomes King» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Witch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Witch	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Witch	det
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Witch	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Witch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Witch and bro					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

A tall lady who lived by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lady	acl:relcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a tall lady					by the sea	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A fierce old witch with a boat and fifteen young sons of her own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 witch	det
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 boat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witch	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sons	cc
9	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sons	nummod
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sons	amod
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 witch	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sons	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lady with fifteen young sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 sons	case
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sons	amod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lady	nmod

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

Option 4

A lady with fifteen young sons who ruled the whole island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 sons	case
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sons	amod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lady	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ruled	nsubj
8	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sons	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 island	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 island	amod
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ruled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	fifteen young sons	the whole island					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme

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