Test 7 · ★ · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

so she slammed the door on him at the dance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: slam · To what, where: door, dance

This is test 7 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 slammed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slammed	nsubj
3	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slammed	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slammed	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 dance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dance	det
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slammed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 slammed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	she	the door		the dance		on him = he	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent door=Patient on he=Location

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

yeah, she slammed it before he could speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 slammed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slammed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	nsubj
4	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 speak	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 speak	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 speak	aux
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slammed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	she	it					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	speak speech: other	could	he						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, she only slammed it after he left the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 slammed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slammed	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 slammed	advmod
5	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slammed	obj
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 left	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slammed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	she	it					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	leave	past	he	the house					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she slammed it after he said he was going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slammed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	nsubj
4	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slammed	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	slam	past	she	it	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past · progressive	he		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, she slammed it when he left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slammed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	nsubj
4	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slammed	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 left	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slammed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	she	it					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	leave	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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