Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with l…

Wait, so why did the lad sleep up there, was he well knackered?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, lad · What happens: wait, be, knacker · To what, where: he

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1704 «Fairy Tales, The Glass Mountain: a schoolboy climbs with lynx claws, cuts the eagle's feet, and wins the Princess» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knackered	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	15 knackered	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 there	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 there	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	nsubj
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
9	up	up	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 knackered	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knackered	aux:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knackered	nsubj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 knackered	advmod
15	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Wait	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · do-support	the lad		there property	tree rules
3	knacker	past · passive		he	well 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was totally wiped out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wiped	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wiped	aux:pass
3	totally	totally	ADV	_	4 wiped	advmod
4	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 wiped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past · passive		He				totally property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 2

He was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

He was really scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

He was so tired from climbing that he dropped asleep on the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 climbing	mark
6	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dropped	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dropped	nsubj
9	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	advcl
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dropped	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 glass	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		tired property	tree rules
2	climb	gerund	He not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drop	past	he	the glass	asleep property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on glass=Trajectory

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