Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…

Honestly, why was Day crying in the ground-room?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Day · What happens: cry · To what, where: ground room

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1082 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 7: the Ogress-Queen orders her grandchildren and daughter-in-law to be eaten, the clerk saves them, and she orders a tub of snakes for them all» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 crying	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 crying	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crying	aux
5	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 crying	nsubj
6	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ground	punct
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crying	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	Day			the ground room		honestly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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

his mamma had found him in the cellar and was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mamma	nmod:poss
2	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cellar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellar	det
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 angry	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 angry	cop
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · perfect · passive		his mamma		the cellar			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
2	is	past						angry property	tree rules

Option 2

the clerk had told him he would be cooked tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cooked	nsubj:pass
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cooked	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 cooked	aux:pass
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
10	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the clerk	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	cook	would · passive		he			tonight		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

he had spilled his milk

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 spilled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spilled	aux
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 milk	nmod:poss
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past · perfect	he	his milk					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location milk=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

his mamma was gonna whip him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mamma	nmod:poss
2	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whip	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 whip	cop
4	gonna	gonna	PART	_	5 whip	mark
5	whip	whip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 whip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his mamma					whip property	tree rules

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