Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen ros…

wait, why's he scared of the quiet, like it's a horror movie

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he, quiet · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1438 «Fairy Tales, Beauty and the Beast, part 25: the stolen rose and the Beast's bargain» 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 scared	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 scared	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 quiet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 quiet	det
9	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 movie	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	16 movie	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 movie	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 movie	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 movie	det
15	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 movie	compound
16	movie	movie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	he	of the quiet; scared property	tree rules
3	is	present	quiet	like a horror movie	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cuz the place is empty and creepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	cop
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 creepy	cc
7	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 empty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cuz					empty property	tree rules
2	be		Cuz not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Cuz he's guilty and sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 guilty	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guilty	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guilty	cop
4	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sad	cc
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guilty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cuz					guilty property	tree rules
2	be		Cuz not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Cuz there's ghosts about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 's	nsubj
5	about	about	ADV	_	3 's	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	Cuz			there		about property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cuz he thinks someone's watching him from every window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 thinks	obj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 someone	acl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watching	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Cuz	someone					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
2	watch	gerund		Cuz		every window			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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