Test 3 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

Why did the mistress not just shout for help, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: not shout

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1988 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches and a sieve of water» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 shout	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shout	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mistress	det
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 shout	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 shout	advmod
7	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shout	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	7 shout	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shout speech: express	past · do-support						for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

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

Cos the spell had her frozen solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 spell	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 solid	nmod:poss
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 solid	amod
7	solid	solid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		her frozen solid				cos the spell	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solid=Patient
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

No idea, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 idea	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Cos the witches had her locked up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witches	det
3	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	obj
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 locked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the witches	her = she					tree rules
2	lock up	participle	her = she not said here						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Cos she was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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