Test 1 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Yo, why'd Alonzo sneak out at midnight, tiptoeing and everything?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Alonzo · What happens: sneak out, tiptoe

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 sneak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sneak	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 sneak	punct
5	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	nsubj
6	sneak	sneak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 sneak	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sneak	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tiptoeing	punct
11	tiptoeing	tiptoe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sneak	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 everything	cc
13	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 tiptoeing	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sneak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak out	infinitive	Alonzo				midnight		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tiptoe	gerund	Alonzo not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «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

He was lowkey spooked and heading to the pool, plus he forgot his coat at home

The tree, 16 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 spooked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spooked	aux:pass
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	4 spooked	advmod
4	spooked	spook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heading	cc
6	heading	head	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spooked	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 pool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heading	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
11	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	13 forgot	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	nsubj
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spooked	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgot	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spook	past · passive		He		lowkey property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	head	gerund				to the pool	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	forget	past	he	his coat	home		tree rules

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

He was lowkey spooked and heading to the pool

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 spooked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spooked	aux:pass
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	4 spooked	advmod
4	spooked	spook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heading	cc
6	heading	head	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spooked	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 pool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spook	past · passive		He				lowkey property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	head	gerund						to the pool	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was lowkey spooked and heading to the pool to meet the Yara and grab her

The tree, 16 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 spooked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spooked	aux:pass
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	4 spooked	advmod
4	spooked	spook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heading	cc
6	heading	head	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spooked	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 pool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heading	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 meet	mark
11	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heading	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Yara	det
13	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 meet	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grab	cc
15	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meet	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spook	past · passive	He	lowkey property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	head	gerund		to the pool	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	meet	to-infinitive	the Yara		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yara=Co-Agent
4	grab	infinitive	her = she		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4

He was trying to sneak off to a party in town

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 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sneak	mark
5	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 sneak	compound:prt
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 party	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneak	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sneak off not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			a party in town			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to party=Destination

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