Test 3 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

was Julia actually scared or just being dramatic?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Julia · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1216 «Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest and a promise» 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	4 scared	cop
2	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 dramatic	cc
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 dramatic	advmod
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 dramatic	cop
8	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Julia					actually, scared property	tree rules
2	is	gerund	Julia not said here					dramatic 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

she looked bored and yawned

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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 yawned	cc
5	yawned	yawn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bored	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	she					bored property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	yawn	participle	she not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she went totally white and shook all over while she clutched the table edge and whispered

The tree, 16 words

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 white	advmod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shook	cc
6	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	6 shook	advmod
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 clutched	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 clutched	nsubj
11	clutched	clutch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shook	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	compound
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clutched	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whispered	cc
16	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	she		white property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	past	she not said here		over property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	clutch	past	she	the table edge		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme
4	whisper speech: assert	past	she not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she went totally white and shook

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 white	advmod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shook	cc
6	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					white property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	past	she not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

she didn't look scared at all, just sat there tapping her foot and staring at the window for ages

The tree, 20 words

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	4 look	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 scared	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	parataxis
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sat	advmod
12	tapping	tap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tapping	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 staring	cc
16	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tapping	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 staring	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 ages	case
21	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	past · do-support	she				scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sit	past			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tap	gerund		her foot				vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent foot=Location
4	stare	gerund				for ages	at the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme

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