Test 7 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

No cap, how do witches get outta their skins?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witches · What happens: get · To what, where: outta

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
6	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	conj
8	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skins	nmod:poss
10	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 outta	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	witches	outta					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer outta=Stimulus

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

through a small slit they cut in the back of the leg with a knife

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	through	through	ADP	_	4 slit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 slit	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slit	amod
4	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 back	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 leg	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leg	det
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 knife	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present	they					in the back of the leg; with a knife; through a small slit	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through slit=Patient

Option 2

by pulling the whole hide off over the head like a coat when the moon is up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 pulling	mark
2	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hide	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 whole	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pulling	obj
5	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 hide	compound:prt
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 coat	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 up	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moon	det
15	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 up	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
17	up	up	ADV	_	5 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund		the whole			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Theme
2	hide off	present			the head	like a coat	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location
3	is	present	the moon			up property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

slit in the back of the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slit	slit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 slit	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neck	det
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slit	imperative	you not said here			the back of the neck			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a hole behind the left ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hole	det
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 ear	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
5	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hole	nmod

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

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