Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

How did William feel when the sheep started talking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: William, sheep · What happens: feel, start, talk

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 started	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 started	nsubj
8	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 started	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	William	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	start	past	the sheep	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	the sheep not said here	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Dead scared, legged it home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	4 legged	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dead	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
4	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 legged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past		it				dead, home property	tree rules

Option 2

Calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Really frightened, ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Really	really	ADV	_	2 frightened	advmod
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 frightened	punct
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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