Test 3 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

Was the Ogre's missus, like, crying or chilling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: missus

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 missus	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ogre	det
3	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 missus	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Ogre	case
5	missus	missus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crying	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 crying	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crying	punct
9	crying	cry	NOUN	_	5 missus	appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 chilling	cc
11	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 crying	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 missus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Ogre's missus					tree rules
2	chill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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

Crying over her seven daughters who were slain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	5 daughters	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughters	nmod:poss
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crying	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 slain	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slain	cop
8	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughters	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund						over her seven daughters	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over daughter=Location
2	is	past	her seven daughters					slain property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Crying over her daughters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 daughters	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughters	nmod:poss
4	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund						over her daughters	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over daughter=Location

Option 3

Crying bitterly over her daughters' deaths at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	1 Crying	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	7 deaths	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughters	nmod:poss
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deaths	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 daughters	case
7	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crying	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund				her daughters's deaths	dawn	bitterly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over death=Location
2	die		her daughters						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Weeping for her girls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 girls	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 girls	nmod:poss
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Weeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	gerund						for her girls	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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