Test 12 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

so the kids were all just sitting there hugging and crying the whole night?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: sit, hug, cry

This is test 12 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sitting	advmod
9	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crying	cc
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the kids	there		all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hug	gerund	the kids not said here				vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the kids not said here		night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

they were asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they scarcely dared to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dared	nsubj
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 dared	advmod
3	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	they					scarcely property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

they hardly dared to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dared	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 dared	advmod
3	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 move	mark
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	past	they					hardly property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	move	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah they just sat there hugging and crying the whole long night without any sleep at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crying	cc
8	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hugging	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hugging	obl:unmarked
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 sleep	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 sleep	det
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hugging	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hugging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they	there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hug	gerund	they not said here	all	night	without any sleep	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund	they not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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