Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes…

Was the white witch a total baddie in this bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: white witch

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1839 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens: the lad comes back to life, and the wicked witch is punished» 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	4 witch	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baddie	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baddie	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 baddie	amod
7	baddie	baddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bit	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 baddie	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 baddie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the white witch					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

Yeah, she was properly wicked and sneaky, tricking the poor lad into the field

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wicked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wicked	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wicked	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 wicked	advmod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sneaky	cc
8	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wicked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tricking	punct
10	tricking	trick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wicked	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lad	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lad	amod
13	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricking	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 field	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 field	det
16	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tricking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		properly, wicked property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here			tree rules
3	trick	gerund	she not said here	the poor lad	into the field result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lad=Patient into field=Result

Option 2

Nope, she just wanted to help the lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the lad					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was properly wicked and sneaky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					properly, wicked property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she was properly wicked and sneaky and had been plotting for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wicked	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wicked	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wicked	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 wicked	advmod
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sneaky	cc
8	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wicked	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plotting	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 plotting	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 plotting	aux
12	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wicked	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ages	case
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plotting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		properly, wicked property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here			tree rules
3	plot	past · perfect · progressive	she not said here	for ages		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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