Test 7 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Horned Women: a night of witches an…

Wait, how did the witches get in at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, witches · What happens: wait, get in

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witches	det
6	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get in	past · do-support	the witches						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 mistress unbolted it, thinking a friend called

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mistress	det
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 unbolted	nsubj
3	unbolted	unbolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unbolted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 unbolted	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obj
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 friend	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	unbolt	past	the mistress	it	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund	the mistress not said here	a friend	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme
3	call	participle		a friend not said here	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They knocked, and the cook opened it at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 opened	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	nsubj
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 opened	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	They						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	open	past	the cook	it					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Location

Option 3

The mistress opened the door, thinking it was a neighbour asking for help with a cow

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mistress	det
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 neighbour	nsubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 neighbour	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 neighbour	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 neighbour	det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	ccomp
12	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 neighbour	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 help	case
14	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asking	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 cow	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cow	det
17	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the mistress	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		a neighbour		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	gerund	a neighbour not said here		for help; with a cow	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The mistress opened the door, thinking it was a neighbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mistress	det
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 opened	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 neighbour	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 neighbour	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 neighbour	det
11	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	open	past	the mistress	the door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	think speech: other	gerund	the mistress not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	mistress	a neighbour	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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