Test 5 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

How did the witch end up dead, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch, you · What happens: be, end up, innit

This is test 5 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 innit	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 end	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		how property	tree rules
2	end up	present	the witch	dead property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	innit	imperative	you not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

Fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fell	fell	ADV	_	2 asleep	advmod
2	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Burned in iron shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 shoes	case
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoes	compound
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle				iron shoes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Location

Option 3

Choked on her own breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 breath	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breath	amod
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	participle				her own breath			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dancing till her legs gave out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
2	till	till	ADP	_	4 legs	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dancing	nmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	past	Dancing till Dancing's legs						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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