Test 12 · ★ · The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part…

Was the boy scared of the pool at all, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be, scare · To what, where: boy

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1135 «The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part 1: a strong boy beats crocodiles and a giant» 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	3 boy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
4	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pool	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pool	det
7	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 pool	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 talk	amod
12	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pool	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boy					tree rules
2	scare	past	the boy					of the pool at all and real talk	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

Yeah, he hesitated a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hesitated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hesitated	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hesitated	nsubj
4	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hesitated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	he	a lot					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he was super scared but jumped in anyway for his pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 jumped	cc
8	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	conj
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 jumped	advmod
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 jumped	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 pride	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 pride	nmod:poss
13	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	scared, super property	tree rules
2	jump in	past	he not said here	for his pride; anyway property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pride		his = he		nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went in like it was nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nothing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	cop
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	it					like nothing	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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