Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…
Could the witch see clearly, fam?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: witch · What happens: see · To what, where: fam
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fam | punct |
| 7 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | the witch | fam | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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 right answer
Nah, witches cannot see far
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | witches | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Nah, actually she could see far, like a hawk over the whole forest, mate
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hawk | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 hawk | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hawk | det |
| 11 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | parataxis |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forest | amod |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hawk | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mate | punct |
| 17 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hawk | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | she | actually, far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Nah, she was half blind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 blind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | cop |
| 5 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 blind | advmod |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | blind, half property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, she could see fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | she | fine property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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