Test 10 · ★ · Breton Fairy Tales, Tephany: a proud beauty loses her magi…

did Tephany actually cry or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tephany · What happens: cry

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1329 «Breton Fairy Tales, Tephany: a proud beauty loses her magic gifts and chooses an honest life» 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	4 cry	aux
2	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cry	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 cry	advmod
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 nah	cc
6	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cry	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Tephany					actually property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

nah, she tried really hard not to cry at all, but a few tears slipped out, and then she stopped them before anyone could see the pearls

The tree, 27 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tried	nsubj
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 tried	advmod
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cry	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cry	mark
9	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tried	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 cry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slipped	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 slipped	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tears	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tears	amod
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slipped	nsubj
17	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tried	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 slipped	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stopped	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stopped	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	obj
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stopped	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pearls	det
30	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	she				hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		all			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
3	slip out	participle	a few tears					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	stop	past	she	tears = tear		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality
5	see	could	anyone	the pearls				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pearl=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she cried a bit, then stopped and wiped her face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stopped	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stopped	advmod
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wiped	cc
9	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wiped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she	a bit		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	she not said here		then	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	wipe	past	she not said here	her face		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she cried, but then she forced her tears back and wiped her eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forced	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 forced	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 forced	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forced	nsubj
7	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tears	nmod:poss
9	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forced	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 forced	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wiped	cc
12	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wiped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	force back	past	she	her tears	then	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Recipient
3	wipe	past	she not said here	her eyes		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source

Option 4

she started crying, but then she made herself stop, pushed the tears back, and wiped her eyes so the pearls wouldn't come out

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 made	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	parataxis
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 made	obj
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pushed	punct
12	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tears	det
14	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pushed	obj
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 pushed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wiped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wiped	cc
18	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wiped	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pearls	det
23	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 come	advmod
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wiped	advcl
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	she				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	she	herself = she	then		tree rules
4	stop	infinitive	herself = she not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	push back	past	she not said here	the tears			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
6	wipe	past	she not said here	her eyes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source
7	not come out	would	the pearls			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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