Test 11 · ★ · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

wait, did the aunt catch her with the pin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, aunt · What happens: wait, catch · To what, where: her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 aunt	det
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 pin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pin	det
10	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past · do-support	the aunt	her = she				with the pin	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

nah, the aunt never noticed her leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 noticed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 aunt	det
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 noticed	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 noticed	advmod
6	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 noticed	obj
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 noticed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past	the aunt	her = she					tree rules
2	leave	gerund	her = she not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, the pin kept her away while she was out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pin	det
4	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 out	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 out	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 out	cop
11	out	out	ADV	_	5 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	past	the pin	her = she				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	past	she					out property	tree rules

Option 3

nah, the pin was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pin	det
4	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the pin					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

yeah, the aunt caught her at the cowhouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 aunt	det
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cowhouse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cowhouse	det
9	cowhouse	cowhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the aunt	her = she		the cowhouse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at cowhouse=Asset

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