Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Holle and The Frog Prince, par…

The princess stopped crying when she saw the frog, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: stop, cry, see · To what, where: frog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 123 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Holle and The Frog Prince, part 26: the lazy girl gets pitch, and the frog claims his 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stopped	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crying	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frog	det
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 stopped	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	past	the princess		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the princess not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	princess	the frog	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=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

Nah, she kept on sobbing all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 sobbing	mark
6	sobbing	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 along	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 sobbing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she						tree rules
2	sob	gerund	she not said here					along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was crying the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	she				time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she was crying the whole time and only got worse when she saw him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	conj
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 got	xcomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	she		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	she not said here			bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	past	she	him = he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, she was crying the whole time, sobbing hard even as he came in

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sobbing	punct
10	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 crying	conj
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sobbing	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sobbing	advcl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	she	time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sob	gerund	she not said here		hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in	past	he			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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