Test 5 · ★ · Brazilian Tales, The Yara, part 17: a voice in the forest…

so did Alonzo just laugh at her or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, laugh · To what, where: Alonzo

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 laugh	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Alonzo					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alonzo=Eventuality
2	laugh	present						at Alonzo	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

he didn't laugh, he just kind of shrugged and went back to eating his bread quietly like nothing happened

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 laugh	advmod
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kind	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 kind	advmod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 shrugged	mark
10	shrugged	shrug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 kind	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 eating	mark
15	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bread	nmod:poss
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eating	obj
18	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	15 eating	advmod
19	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 happened	mark
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 happened	nsubj
21	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eating	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not laugh	past · do-support	he			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kind		he			tree rules
3	shrug	participle		kind not said here		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go back	past	he not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	eat	gerund	he not said here	his bread	quietly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
6	happen	past	nothing			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he laughed so loud that the whole village heard him and then he kept laughing and slapping his knee

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 laughed	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 kept	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 kept	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slapping	cc
17	slapping	slap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 laughing	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knee	nmod:poss
19	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slapping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he			loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	the whole village	him = he			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	keep	past	village		then		tree rules
4	laugh	gerund	village not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	slap	gerund	village not said here	village's knee			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Patient

Option 3

he just rolled his eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rolled	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 rolled	advmod
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	he	his eyes					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he burst out laughing, super loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 burst	compound:prt
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 burst	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loud	punct
6	super	super	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 burst	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst out	past	he					loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	gerund	he not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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