Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…

The witch's daughter was sound, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: sound

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 witch	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sound	cop
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sound	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	6 sound	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sound	punct

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

Nah, she was a total liar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 liar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liar	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 liar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 liar	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 liar	amod
7	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a total liar					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was good and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Nah, she was well dodgy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was a mega thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 thief	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thief	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thief	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thief	det
6	mega	mega	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thief	compound
7	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a mega thief					tree rules

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