Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Was the old woman a total nice lady, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: old woman

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	8 lady	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lady	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old woman					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

Yeah, she was a lovely old lady who just liked kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 lady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lady	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lady	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 liked	obj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 liked	advmod
11	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lady	acl:relcl
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a lovely old lady					tree rules
2	like	past		a lovely old lady					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she was a wicked witch who had been waiting for kids for years, innit

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 witch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 witch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 waiting	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waiting	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 waiting	aux
11	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 witch	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 kids	case
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 waiting	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 waiting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 witch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a wicked witch and innit					tree rules
2	wait	past · perfect · progressive	a wicked witch and innit				year	for kids	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she was a lovely lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 lady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lady	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was a wicked witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 witch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 witch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a wicked witch					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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/744-pg2591-part20/t11/