Test 11 · ★ · Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the…

Okay, but why does the boy not look at her face then, like, what happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not look, happen

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1457 «Perseus book, The Terrible Head, part 44: the boy wins the Cap, Sword and Shoes on his quest» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	9 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 look	cc
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 look	advmod
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 look	advmod
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 face	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	obl
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 look	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happens	punct
15	like	like	INTJ	_	18 happens	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happens	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happens	nsubj
18	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look	present · do-support					then	at her face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
2	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

He'd turn to stone from the terror and the pity of it, the same as anyone who looks at her face

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 terror	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 terror	det
8	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pity	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pity	det
11	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 terror	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pity	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 same	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 same	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 terror	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 anyone	case
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 turn	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 looks	nsubj
20	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 anyone	acl:relcl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	would	He		the terror and the pity of pity	to stone result; as anyone	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent to stone=Result from terror=Initial_State
2	look	present				at her face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme
3	pity			pity			nom pity «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

He'd turn to stone right there on the spot from the terror and the pity of her face, like all the men before him

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turn	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 spot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spot	det
10	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 terror	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 terror	det
13	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pity	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pity	det
16	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 terror	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pity	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 men	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 men	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 men	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 terror	conj
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	He			the spot; there	before him = he	to stone; from the terror and the pity of her face and all men	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to stone=Source on spot=Trajectory from terror=Destination
2	pity			her face					nom pity «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He'd turn to stone from the terror and the pity of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 stone	case
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 terror	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 terror	det
8	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pity	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pity	det
11	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 terror	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	He			the terror and the pity of pity		to stone result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent to stone=Result from terror=Initial_State
2	pity			pity					nom pity «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

He'd be stuck, cos she'd freeze him with fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stuck	cop
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 freeze	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 freeze	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 freeze	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 freeze	aux
9	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stuck	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 freeze	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 fright	case
12	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He					stuck property	tree rules
2	freeze	would	she	him = he				with fright	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with fright=Instrument

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