Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

the mom was super tense, why'd she check on the kid?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom, she · What happens: be, check

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» 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 mom	det
2	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tense	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tense	cop
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 tense	advmod
5	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 check	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 check	advmod
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 check	aux
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 check	nsubj
10	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tense	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 kid	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kid	det
13	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 check	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tense	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mom					super, tense property	tree rules
2	check	would	she					on the kid	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on kid=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

She feared he would leave her

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	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	leave	would	he	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

She was hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

She feared he would leave her and return to his people, never to visit the marsh again

The tree, 17 words

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	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 return	cc
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 people	nmod:poss
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 return	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 visit	punct
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 visit	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 visit	mark
15	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 marsh	det
17	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visit	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	15 visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	leave	would	he	her = she			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	return	infinitive	he not said here			to his people result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result
4	not visit	to-infinitive	he not said here	the marsh	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marsh=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She thought he was sick

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					sick property	tree rules

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