Test 9 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…
Did anyone in the town stick up for her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone · What happens: stick up
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stick | aux |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 stick | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anyone | nmod |
| 6 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stick | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stick | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up | past · do-support | anyone | for her = she | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: 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
Nah, nobody dared speak up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 dared | nsubj |
| 4 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 speak | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | nobody | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak up speech: other | infinitive | nobody not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, nobody got a word in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | nobody | a word | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yeah, loads did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 loads | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | loads | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, a few people tried
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 tried | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | a few people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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