Test 12 · ★ · Lapland Fairy Tales, Patto and the Stalos, part 59: Patto…

was the ogress shocked when her sons ran to her

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ogress, sons · What happens: be, shock, run · To what, where: ogress

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1193 «Lapland Fairy Tales, Patto and the Stalos, part 59: Patto kills Stalo and the Sodnos rescue Lyma» 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 ogress	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogress	det
3	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shocked	nsubj
4	shocked	shock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 ran	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sons	nmod:poss
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shocked	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the ogress		tree rules
2	shock	past	the ogress			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	run	past	ogress's sons		ogress	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result

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

Nope, she had already heard them coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	she	them = they					tree rules
2	come	gerund	them = they not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she was surprised at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 surprised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 surprised	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 surprised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					at them = they; surprised property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, she had already figured out they were dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 figured	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 figured	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 figured	advmod
6	figured	figure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 figured	compound:prt
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dim	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dim	cop
10	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 figured	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure out	past · perfect	she						vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					dim property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, she was shocked and asked them what had happened, but she had already figured out they were not very clever

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 shocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shocked	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shocked	cop
5	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 asked	cc
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shocked	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	obj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happened	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	aux
11	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 asked	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 figured	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 figured	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 figured	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 figured	aux
16	already	already	ADV	_	17 figured	advmod
17	figured	figure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 shocked	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 figured	compound:prt
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 clever	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 clever	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 clever	advmod
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 clever	advmod
23	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 figured	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		shocked property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	she not said here	them = they		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	figure out	past · perfect	she			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	they		clever property	tree rules

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