Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

Did the witch get her comeuppance, or did she get away wi' it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: witch · What happens: get, get away · To what, where: comeuppance, wi

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 comeuppance	nmod:poss
6	comeuppance	comeuppance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 get	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
13	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 wi	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the witch	witch's comeuppance					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comeuppance=Stimulus
2	get away	past · do-support	witch	wi				away property	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

She was turned into a toad by Childe Wynd's rowan twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 toad	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toad	det
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	12 twig	case
8	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 twig	nmod:poss
9	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Childe	flat
10	's	's	PART	_	8 Childe	case
11	rowan	rowan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 twig	compound
12	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive	Childe's rowan twig	She				into a toad result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into toad=Result

Option 2

She got turned into a hideous toad and banished for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 toad	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
6	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toad	amod
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 banished	cc
9	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 banished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		She				into a hideous toad result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into toad=Result
2	banish	participle							vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She got turned to a toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 toad	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 toad	det
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		She				to a toad result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme to toad=Result

Option 4

She escaped to France

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 escaped	nsubj
2	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 France	case
4	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 escaped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	She			France			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to france=Initial_Location

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