Test 8 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Pinkel, part 27: Pinkel steals the witch'…

So why'd Pinkel have to sneak in barefoot then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinkel · What happens: have, sneak · To what, where: barefoot

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1161 «Pink Fairy Book, Pinkel, part 27: Pinkel steals the witch's golden lantern and then her goat, while his jealous brothers plot against him» 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	_	5 have	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 Pinkel	punct
4	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sneak	mark
7	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 barefoot	case
9	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sneak	obl
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sneak	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Pinkel						tree rules
2	sneak	to-infinitive	Pinkel not said here			barefoot	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barefoot=Trajectory

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

So nobody would hear him creeping about the hut in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 hear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hear	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 hut	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hut	det
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creeping	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	nobody	him = he					tree rules
2	creep	gerund	him = he not said here			the dark		about the hut	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about hut=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos he didn't want to be seen by guards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 want	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 seen	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 want	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 guards	case
10	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	guards						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

So the floor wouldn't creak loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 creak	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creak	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 creak	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 creak	advmod
6	creak	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 creak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not creak	would	the floor					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So nobody would hear him creeping about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 hear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hear	xcomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 creeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	nobody	him = he					tree rules
2	creep	gerund	him = he not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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