Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…

Did the guests look well nervous when the beggar walked in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guests, beggar · What happens: do, look, walk in

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guests	det
3	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 nervous	advmod
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 walked	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beggar	det
9	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nervous	advcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	look	present	the guests	nervous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	walk in	past	the beggar		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

Yeah, some looked scared and others got up to leave the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 got	compound:prt
10	to	to	PART	_	11 leave	mark
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 got	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	some		scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	get up	past	others			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	leave	to-infinitive	others not said here	the room		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they were laughing and joking about him when he came in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 joking	cc
7	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 laughing	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joking	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	advcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	they		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	joke speech: other	gerund	they not said here	about him = he	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about he=Topic
3	come in	past	he		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, some looked scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	some					scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, some were well cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cross	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cross	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cross	advmod
6	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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