Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

Dude, did the old man hype the wisps or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: hype · To what, where: wisps

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hype	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hype	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hype	nsubj
7	hype	hype	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wisps	det
9	wisps	wisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hype	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 hype	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hype	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype	past · do-support	Dude	the wisps					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

He yelled at them loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yelled	nsubj
2	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 yelled	obl
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 yelled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	He					at them = they; loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was too scared to say anything, honestly, the old man just ran away

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	xcomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 say	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 honestly	punct
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	conj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 man	acl:relcl
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		scared property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	He not said here	anything	honestly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	run away	past	the old man not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah he hyped them up a lot, like he cheered really loud every single time

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 hyped	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hyped	nsubj
3	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hyped	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 hyped	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hyped	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loud	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 loud	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 loud	nsubj
11	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 loud	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 loud	advmod
13	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hyped	parataxis
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loud	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype up	past	he	them = they				a lot obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	is	past	he				time	loud property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was scared to say it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scared	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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