Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

why did dad get mad at mom, was she being really annoying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, she · What happens: get, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 mom	case
7	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mad	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 annoying	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 annoying	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 annoying	nsubj
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 annoying	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 annoying	advmod
13	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	dad					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	she					annoying property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she kept nagging him over and over

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nagging	nag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nagging	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	3 nagging	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 over	cc
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 over	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she						tree rules
2	nag	gerund	she not said here	him = he				over property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

she was annoying

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 annoying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 annoying	cop
3	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

she was loud

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 loud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loud	cop
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

she kept on talking about the hunger and the children and never let it go at all

The tree, 17 words

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 talking	mark
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 hunger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunger	det
7	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 children	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunger	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 kept	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she				tree rules
2	talk	gerund	she not said here			about the hunger and the children	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hunger=Topic
3	not let	infinitive	she not said here	it			tree rules
4	go	infinitive			all		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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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