Test 4 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Wait, why did the Yara look nervous at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Yara · What happens: wait, look

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 look	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Yara	det
6	Yara	Yara	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nervous	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past · do-support	the Yara					nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

He kept pushing forward and she was wavering

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pushing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wavering	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wavering	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wavering	aux
8	wavering	waver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He		tree rules
2	push forward	gerund	He not said here	forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	waver	past · progressive	she		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She was scared of the pistol shot

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 shot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shot	det
6	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shot	compound
7	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					of the pistol shot; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

He kept pushing forward and she was wavering, so she turned to look at the sea shell

The tree, 17 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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pushing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wavering	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wavering	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wavering	aux
8	wavering	waver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turned	nsubj
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 shell	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shell	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shell	compound
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He		tree rules
2	push forward	gerund	He not said here	forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	waver	past · progressive	she		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	past	she		tree rules
5	look	to-infinitive	she not said here	at the sea shell	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shell=Theme

Option 4

He kept pushing forward and she was wavering because the pistol had been loaded with silver

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pushing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wavering	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wavering	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wavering	aux
8	wavering	waver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	conj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 loaded	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pistol	det
11	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loaded	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 loaded	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 loaded	aux:pass
14	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kept	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 silver	case
16	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He			tree rules
2	push forward	gerund	He not said here		forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	waver	past · progressive	she			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	load	past · perfect · passive		the pistol	with silver	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with silver=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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