Test 1 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

Oi, what was the witch's own kid doing in the bed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: own kid · What happens: be, do · To what, where: own kid, bed

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	9 kid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 kid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kid	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kid	amod
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kid	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the witch's own kid					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the witch's own kid not said here			the bed			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Hiding under a sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 sheet	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sheet	det
4	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				a sheet			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under sheet=Location

Option 2

Crying under a blanket, hurt badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hurt	advcl
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 blanket	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blanket	det
4	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crying	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Crying	punct
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	you not said here			a blanket			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under blanket=Location
2	hurt	imperative	you not said here					badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lying there with her head chopped off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 chopped	csubj
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Lying	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
6	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 chopped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				there		with her head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chop off	past	Lying						vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Sitting up, wide awake and smiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Sitting	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 awake	punct
4	wide	wide	ADV	_	5 awake	advmod
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sitting	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smiling	cc
7	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	smile	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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