Test 6 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

lowkey the mom was crying right, she was like "why did you do that" to dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey mom, mom · What happens: cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mom	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mom	det
3	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crying	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	cop
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 do	advmod
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crying	conj
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 do	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 dad	case
19	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	the lowkey mom					right property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past · do-support	mom					to dad; do 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

yeah she kept saying it was wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	she not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it	wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah she kept yelling that he was the worst dad and wouldn't stop crying for hours

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dad	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dad	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dad	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dad	det
9	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 dad	amod
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yelling	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stop	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stop	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stop	advmod
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	conj
15	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stop	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 hours	case
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	she			tree rules
2	yell speech: express	gerund	she not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	the worst dad		tree rules
4	not stop	would	she not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here		hour	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah she kept saying he was wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	she not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	he	wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah she was crying the whole time and begging him to bring the kids back home

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 crying	discourse
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crying	aux
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 begging	cc
9	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 crying	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begging	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 begging	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kids	det
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bring	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod
16	home	home	ADV	_	12 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	she		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	gerund	she not said here	him = he			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring back not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the kids		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kid=Destination

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