Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

No cap, was the sexton actually scared of the youth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be · To what, where: sexton

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sexton	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sexton	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sexton	det
6	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sexton	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 youth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scared	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sexton	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	the sexton					tree rules

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, the sexton was the one scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sexton	det
4	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the sexton	the one					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the youth was the one who got wrecked by the ghost tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wrecked	nsubj
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wrecked	aux:pass
10	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 one	acl:relcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 tower	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tower	det
13	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tower	compound
14	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wrecked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the youth	the one					tree rules
2	wreck	past · passive		the one				by the ghost tower	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was the one who got wrecked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wrecked	nsubj
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrecked	aux:pass
9	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the one					tree rules
2	wreck	past · passive		the one					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the sexton totally freaked out and ran off screaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 freaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 freaked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sexton	det
4	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 freaked	nsubj:pass
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 freaked	advmod
6	freaked	freak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ran	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 freaked	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	freak out	participle · passive	the sexton	totally property	tree rules
2	run off	past			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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