Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Mira…

What did the fairies do when she grabbed at them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fairies, she · What happens: do, grab

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1465 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Wonderful Sheep, part 52: Miranda meets talking sheep and hears the Sheep's sad story» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fairies	det
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grabbed	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grabbed	nsubj
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grabbed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the fairies		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grab	past	she	at fairies = fairy	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

They glided off and she felt nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glided	nsubj
2	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 glided	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 felt	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glided	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 felt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide off	past	They						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	she	nothing					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They flew off and she grabbed air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grabbed	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grabbed	nsubj
6	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	They						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	past	she	air					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

Option 3

They laughed and she felt nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 felt	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 felt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	she	nothing					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 4

They glided off and she felt nothing at all, not even a breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glided	nsubj
2	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 glided	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 felt	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 felt	nsubj
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glided	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 felt	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 felt	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 breath	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 breath	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 breath	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 breath	det
14	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide off	past	They	a breath					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	she	nothing		all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Location

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