Test 8 · ★ · Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired,…

ngl the mist thing was creepy, right

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, mist thing · What happens: ngl, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1183 «Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired, part 49: Ardan herds the old man's cows and is turned to stone» 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thing	compound
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creepy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 creepy	cop
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	1 ngl	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	the mist thing					creepy property	tree rules

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 it crept up quietly and held the sister with strong arms and nobody could pull her free from it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 crept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 crept	compound:prt
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 crept	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sister	det
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 arms	amod
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 held	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pull	cc
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 pull	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pull	aux
16	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crept	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 free	nmod:poss
18	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pull	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	it			quietly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past		the sister		with strong arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	pull	could	nobody	her free	it		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent free=Theme from it=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah it crept up and held the sister with strong arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 crept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 crept	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 held	cc
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 arms	case
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arms	amod
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sister	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	it						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past		the sister				with strong arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme

Option 3

yeah the mist rolled in and took her away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rolled	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mist	det
3	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	nsubj
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 rolled	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll in	past	the mist						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take away	past	the mist not said here	mist				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

yeah it crept up and held the sister with strong arms until she vanished from the hill entirely

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 crept	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crept	nsubj
3	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 crept	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 held	cc
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sister	det
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 arms	case
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 arms	amod
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 held	obl
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 vanished	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vanished	nsubj
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crept	advcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 hill	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hill	det
17	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vanished	obl
18	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	14 vanished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	it				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past		the sister		with strong arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	vanish	past	she		the hill	entirely property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location

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