Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

Mate, why did the wife greet when her man turned up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife, man · What happens: greet, turn up

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 greet	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 greet	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 greet	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 greet	nsubj
7	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 turned	mark
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 man	nmod:poss
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 greet	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 turned	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past · do-support	the wife						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn up	past	wife's man						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

she was frightened

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2

she was happy

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

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

Option 3

she was frightened of the giant's return

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 return	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		she				of the giant's return	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	return		the giant						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

she was frightened that he had been killed

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 killed	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 killed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 killed	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 killed	aux:pass
8	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 frightened	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	kill	past · perfect · passive		he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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