Test 10 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre…

when they bolted, were they chill or freaking out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: bolt, be, freak out

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1089 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 14: the Ogre kills his own daughters by mistake and the boys flee» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 bolted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bolted	nsubj
3	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chill	punct
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chill	cop
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chill	nsubj
7	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bolted	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 freaking	cc
9	freaking	freak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 chill	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 freaking	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bolted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	they		tree rules
2	is	past	they	chill property	tree rules
3	freak out	gerund	they not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

kinda scared, running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 scared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

pretty calm, walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 calm	advmod
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walking	punct
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 calm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

totally chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	totally	totally	ADV	_	2 chill	advmod
2	chill	chill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	imperative	you not said here					totally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

freaking out, trembling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	freaking	freak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 freaking	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trembling	punct
4	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 freaking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freak out	gerund							vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	tremble	gerund							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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