Test 1 · ★ · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…

Yo, did Becfola actually sneak back into the palace before breakfast, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Becfola · What happens: sneak back · To what, where: palace

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 sneak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sneak	aux
4	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 sneak	advmod
6	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 sneak	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 breakfast	case
12	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 sneak	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sneak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak back	past · do-support	Becfola			the palace	before breakfast	actually property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into palace=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

Yeah, super early, only the cooks were up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 early	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 were	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 cooks	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cooks	det
8	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 were	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be up	past	the cooks					early property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, super early, nobody awake except the guards and the dogs, then she spent all morning sulking in the hall

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 early	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 awake	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 awake	nsubj
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 guards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dogs	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dogs	det
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 guards	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spent	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 spent	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spent	nsubj
17	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 morning	det
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spent	obj
20	sulking	sulk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 spent	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hall	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hall	det
23	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sulking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	she				then; morning		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sulk	gerund	she not said here			the hall			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, super early, nobody awake except the guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 early	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 awake	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 awake	nsubj
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 guards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, super early, nobody awake except the guards, and she was totally caught by the king later

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 early	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 awake	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 early	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 awake	nsubj
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 guards	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 guards	det
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 caught	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	aux:pass
15	totally	totally	ADV	_	16 caught	advmod
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 awake	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 king	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obl
20	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive	the king	she				late, totally property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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