Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the gol…

Innit, how does the second brother sort it with the witch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sort · To what, where: it

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1931 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Golden Children, part 68: the golden lad is turned to stone» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 does	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sort	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sort	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 witch	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witch	det
12	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sort	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sort	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	present · do-support		it				with the witch	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

threatens to bind her fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bind	cop
2	to	to	PART	_	3 bind	mark
3	bind	bind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bind	obj
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 bind	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						bind, fast property	tree rules

Option 2

threatens to shoot her down with his bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	cop
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shoot	mark
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shoot	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 shoot	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bow	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bow	nmod:poss
8	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with his bow; shoot property	tree rules

Option 3

threatens to shoot her down unless she lifts the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	cop
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shoot	mark
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shoot	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 shoot	compound:prt
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	8 lifts	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lifts	nsubj
8	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spell	det
10	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						shoot property	tree rules
2	lift a condition, not said to happen	present	she	the spell					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

threatens to shoot her down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	cop
2	to	to	PART	_	3 shoot	mark
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shoot	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 shoot	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						shoot property	tree rules

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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