Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

What did the witch do with those snakes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: witch

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 snakes	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 snakes	det
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the witch				with that snakes	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	do	present							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

Hung them on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hung	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 wall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past		them = they		the wall			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on wall=Destination

Option 2

Let them bite her gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bite	obj
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	bite	infinitive	them = they not said here	her = she				gently property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Let them crawl all over her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	all	all	ADV	_	3 crawl	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crawl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they					tree rules
2	crawl	infinitive	them = they not said here					over her = she; all property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Trajectory

Option 4

Let them coil around her body while she stirred the pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	coil	coil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	around	around	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coil	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 stirred	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stirred	nsubj
9	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coil	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pot	det
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stirred	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	them = they		tree rules
2	coil	infinitive	them = they not said here		her body	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around body=Destination
3	stir	past	she	the pot		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pot=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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