Test 6 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…

Did Graciosa cry in the wood, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Graciosa · What happens: cry · To what, where: wood

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
2	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cry	nsubj
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cry	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nah	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 cry	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	Graciosa			the wood			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location

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

yeah, she cried loads and sat down by a stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cried	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she	loads					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic
2	sit down	past	she not said here					by a stream	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stream=Location

Option 2

nah, she laughed a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she	a lot					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she cried loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cried	obj

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

Option 4

yeah, she sang loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she	loads					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location load=Theme

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