Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Wicked, so did the kids sit at the door or go in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: do, sit, go in · To what, where: door

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sit	nsubj
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	conj
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	present	the kids	the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
3	go in	infinitive	the kids not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

They sat at the door, too scared to go in and hid behind the wall

The tree, 15 words

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scared	advcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sit	past	They	the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	go in	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	past	They not said here	the wall	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind wall=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They sat at the door, too scared to go in

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scared	advcl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	They			the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
2	go in	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They sat inside, too scared to leave

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	They					inside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They went right in, but sat at the far end of the room, scared

The tree, 14 words

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 in	advmod
4	in	in	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
10	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 end	amod
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 room	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 room	det
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scared	punct
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	They not said here				at the far end of the room		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location

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