Test 8 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

when the third one hit, did the roof cave in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: third one hit · What happens: do · To what, where: roof cave

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hit	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 hit	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hit	compound
5	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cave	compound
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	7 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the third one hit	the roof cave					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=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 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it shook loads, then it went quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	it	loads					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent load=Patient
2	go	past	it				then	quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it felt like it, then the barn was still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 barn	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 barn	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barn	det
8	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	conj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 still	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 barn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	it					like it	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=Theme
2	is	past						still property	tree rules

Option 3

it nearly did, then silence came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
6	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	it					nearly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	silence				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it felt like it, but then it went dead quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quiet	amod
11	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	it					like it	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like it=Theme
2	go	past	it	dead quiet			then		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quiet=Theme

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