Test 10 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the o…

Why did he chicken out at the edge, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do out, chicken · To what, where: edge

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1257 «Violet Fairy Book, Wali Dâd, part 58: gifts pile up, the old man tries to drown himself, and two Peris appear» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chicken	nsubj
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 did	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 though	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do out	past				the edge			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chicken		he						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he couldn't bring himself to jump

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 bring	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bring	advmod
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 bring	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 jump	mark
7	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bring	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bring	could	he	himself = he					tree rules
2	jump	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he had lost his nerve completely

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 lost	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nerve	nmod:poss
5	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	he	his nerve				completely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Eventuality

Option 3

he couldn't bring himself to jump because the Peris called him from below

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 bring	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bring	advmod
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 bring	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 jump	mark
7	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bring	xcomp
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 called	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Peris	det
10	Peris	Peris	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jump	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 below	case
14	below	below	ADV	_	11 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not bring	could	he	himself = he	tree rules
2	jump	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past	the Peris	him = he	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from below=Source

Option 4

he couldn't bring himself to jump, so he walked home to fetch the merchant

The tree, 15 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 bring	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bring	advmod
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 bring	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 jump	mark
7	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bring	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	parataxis
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fetch	mark
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 walked	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not bring	could	he	himself = he		tree rules
2	jump	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	walk	past	he		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	to-infinitive	he not said here	the merchant		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Theme

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