Test 9 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…

Was the King's lad still bawling, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, bawl · To what, where: lad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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 lad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bawling	csubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 bawling	advmod
7	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	7 bawling	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bawling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the King's lad					tree rules
2	bawl speech: other	gerund					still		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

he stopped only once the nurse had carried him to the window

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	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 stopped	advmod
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 carried	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carried	aux
8	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stopped	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carried	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	carry	past · perfect · passive		the nurse				to the window	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he cried until the morning

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	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	5 morning	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he stopped once the nurse had him

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	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have	past	the nurse	him = he					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

he stopped crying once the nurse had finally gotten him into the cradle and sung him a song

The tree, 18 words

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	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 gotten	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gotten	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gotten	aux
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 gotten	advmod
9	gotten	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stopped	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gotten	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 cradle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cradle	det
13	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gotten	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sung	cc
15	sung	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sung	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 song	det
18	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	he not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past · perfect · passive		the nurse		the cradle	finally property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	he not said here	a song	him = he			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary song=Theme

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