Test 12 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Was Cinderlad scared of the hag or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	Cinderlad	cinderlad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scared	amod
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hag	det
6	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hag	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of the hag; scared property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he just laughed and kept going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	laugh	past	he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he not said here	tree rules
3	go	gerund	he not said here	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he just stared and stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stared	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stared	advmod
5	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stopped	cc
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stared	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past	he						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past	he not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he just laughed at her and kept going without stopping once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 stopping	mark
12	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 going	advcl
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 stopping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he	at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he not said here		tree rules
3	go	gerund	he not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	gerund	he not said here	once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Nah, he just laughed and kept going straight past her to the foals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughed	conj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	past	past	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 foals	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foals	det
14	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he not said here			tree rules
3	go	gerund	he not said here	the foals	past her = she; straight property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme past she=Initial_Location to foal=Destination

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