Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza fl…

lowkey the swans nearly crashed at sunset, why was Eliza so stressed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: crash, be, stress · To what, where: Eliza

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1022 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 233: Eliza flies over the sea and waits on a tiny rock» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crashed	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swans	det
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crashed	nsubj
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 crashed	advmod
5	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sunset	case
7	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crashed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stressed	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stressed	advmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Eliza	cop
11	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stressed	nsubj:pass
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 stressed	advmod
13	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 crashed	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past	lowkey		sunset	nearly property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		Eliza			tree rules
3	stress	participle · passive		Eliza			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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

she thought they'd lose their wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lose	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	would	they	their wings					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality

Option 2

she was scared of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of birds; scared property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she thought they'd turn to men and drown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 men	case
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drown	cc
9	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	turn	would	they	to men result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result
3	drown	infinitive	they not said here		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she feared the storm would hit them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux
6	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hit	would	the storm	them = they					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

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