Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king'…

how did the village react when the couple walked back in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: village, couple · What happens: react, walk back

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1168 «Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king's magic is ruined, and a bride asks for a buffalo» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 react	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 react	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 village	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 react	nsubj
5	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 walked	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 couple	det
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	nsubj
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 react	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 walked	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	9 walked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 react	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	react	past · do-support	the village						tree rules
2	walk back	past	the couple						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

they all stared, kinda creepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stared	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stared	advmod
3	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creepy	punct
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 creepy	advmod
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	they					creepy property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they came out quietly, kinda awkward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 awkward	punct
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 awkward	advmod
7	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	they					out, quietly property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they all came out shouting welcome, it was wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
6	welcome	welcome	INTJ	_	5 shouting	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wild	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wild	cop
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come out	past	they	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	shout speech: express	gerund	they not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	it	wild property	tree rules

Option 4

they all came out into the road shouting welcome and throwing flowers, it was honestly a wild scene

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 road	acl
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shouting	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 throwing	cc
11	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 shouting	conj
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throwing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scene	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 scene	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 scene	cop
16	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	19 scene	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 scene	det
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 scene	amod
19	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	they		the road	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	shout speech: express	gerund	the road not said here			welcome property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	gerund	the road not said here	flowers			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
4	is a	past	road	a wild scene		honestly property	tree rules

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