Test 7 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks…

so the wife got real scared and did what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: get, do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1469 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks the Ogre, steals his boots and gold, and grows rich» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scared	amod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the wife					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past	the wife not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

she fell in a heap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 heap	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 heap	det
5	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	she			a heap			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in heap=Location

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

she fainted dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fainted	nsubj
2	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fainted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	she					dead property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

she screamed loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 screamed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	she					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

she shrieked and then fainted dead right there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shrieked	nsubj
2	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fainted	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fainted	advmod
5	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shrieked	conj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fainted	xcomp
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fainted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	she						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	faint	past	she not said here			there	then	dead property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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