Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is c…

Was the girl mad scared when she got taken, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, take · To what, where: girl

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1706 «Fairy Book, Fairer-than-a-Fairy, part 1: the Princess is carried off, meets the Rainbow, and breaks a bottle» 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	5 scared	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	nsubj
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scared	amod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 taken	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taken	nsubj
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux:pass
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 scared	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	ADV	_	9 taken	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the girl					scared property	tree rules
2	take	past · passive		girl				though property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

She was angry and shouted loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shouted	cc
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	conj
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shouted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					angry property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	She not said here					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She nearly died of fear when the ground opened beneath her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fear	case
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 opened	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	advcl
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 opened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	She					of fear; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fear=Causer
2	open	past	the ground			ground's feet			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath foot=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She nearly died of fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fear	case
5	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	She					of fear; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fear=Causer

Option 4

She cried for her mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 mother	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	She					for her mother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mother=Recipient

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