Exam question 2 · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

By what means did the witch come to her end in the briar hedge?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: mean, come · To what, where: briar hedge

This is exam question 2 of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 end	nmod:poss
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 hedge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hedge	det
13	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hedge	compound
14	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · do-support	the witch			the briar hedge	to witch's end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Compelled dancing until death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dancing	amod
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dancing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	participle							vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Compelled to keep dancing in red-hot shoes until she died in the hedge

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 keep	mark
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Compelled	advcl
4	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 shoes	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoes	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoes	amod
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dancing	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 died	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hedge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hedge	det
15	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	compel	participle				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	keep	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	dance	gerund		red hot shoes		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location
4	die	past	she		in the hedge	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in hedge=Attribute

Option 3

Forced to dance until death in the briar hedge that she could not escape.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 dance	mark
3	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Forced	xcomp
4	until	until	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hedge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hedge	det
8	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hedge	compound
9	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 escape	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 escape	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 escape	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 escape	advmod
14	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dance	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Forced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	force	participle				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dance	to-infinitive		the briar hedge	until death	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Location
3	not escape	could	she			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Forced to dance to death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 dance	mark
3	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Forced	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	participle							vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dance	to-infinitive				death			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to death=Trajectory

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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