Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin fin…

so the dragonfly just cried till his head popped off??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dragonfly, head · What happens: cry, pop off

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1275 «Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, part 1: Manstin finds his eyes again, then seven friends set out to make war and the first warriors drop away» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragonfly	det
3	dragonfly	dragonfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 popped	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 popped	nsubj
9	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 popped	compound:prt
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the dragonfly						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pop off	past	dragonfly's head						vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 blew his nose too hard

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 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 nose	nmod:poss
4	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	he	his nose				hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nose=Patient

Option 2

he sneezed way too hard

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 sneezed	nsubj
2	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneezed	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sneezed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	past	he	way				hard property	tree rules

Option 3

he laughed really loudly

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he cried too much

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cried	obj

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

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