Test 7 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…

Who's that old bruv hobbling up to the tower?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old bruv · What happens: be, hobble up · To what, where: old bruv, tower

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bruv	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bruv	cop
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 bruv	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bruv	amod
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	hobbling	hobble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bruv	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 hobbling	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 tower	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tower	det
10	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hobbling	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that old bruv					tree rules
2	hobble up	gerund	that old bruv not said here			the tower			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination

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

Just a little old woman leaning on a stick, looking mean and hungry, like

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	6 leaning	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaning	nsubj
6	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stick	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stick	det
9	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 leaning	conj
12	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hungry	cc
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mean	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leaning	punct
16	like	like	INTJ	_	6 leaning	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund	a little old woman			a stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location
2	look	gerund	a little old woman not said here					mean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

An old wrinkled lady walking slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lady	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
3	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lady	acl
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrinkle	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	walk	gerund	a old wrinkled lady not said here					slow property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A little old woman leaning on a stick, coming up the hill with a basket and a grin

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
10	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 leaning	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 basket	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 basket	det
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grin	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 grin	det
19	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 basket	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund	a little old woman not said here			a stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location
2	come up	gerund	a little old woman not said here	the hill				with a basket and a grin	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A little old woman leaning on a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stick	det
8	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	gerund	a little old woman not said here			a stick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location

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