Test 11 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…

Gutted for them, what did the maiden say about the old wizard's power?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: gut, do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 did	advcl
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Gutted	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	about	about	ADP	_	15 power	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wizard	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wizard	amod
13	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 power	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 wizard	case
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle		for them = they	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the maiden	about the old wizard's power	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

It had no more power over them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 power	amod
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	more power				over them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 2

It had no more power over them, so they were free to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 power	amod
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 free	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 free	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 free	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 free	cop
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 free	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	more power	over them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
2	is	past	they		free property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	they not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It had no more power over them at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 power	amod
5	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	more power		all		over them = they	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 4

It had lost its strength now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 strength	nmod:poss
5	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		It			now		tree rules

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