Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the siste…

Why did the queen's horses go mental?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: horses · What happens: go

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1178 «Fairy Book, The Frog and the Lion Fairy, part 1: the sisters free their husbands, and the queen's chariot crashes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horses	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 queen	case
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the queen's horses					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

A dog barked at them loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dog	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 barked	obl
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 barked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	participle		a dog not said here				at them = they; loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

Option 2

A wild boar ran out of the bushes and they got scared and galloped off

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boar	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boar	amod
3	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 bushes	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bushes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bushes	det
8	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
12	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 galloped	cc
14	galloped	gallop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ran	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 galloped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	a wild boar	the bushes		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out bush=Trajectory
2	get	past	bushes = bush		scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	gallop off	participle	a wild boar not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The wind blew really hard that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 blew	advmod
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind				day	hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She whipped them, so they bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whipped	nsubj
2	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whipped	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bolted	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 bolted	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bolted	nsubj
7	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whipped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	past	She	them = they					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material
2	bolt	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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