Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

Was the soldier even scared when he was going under?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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 soldier	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	csubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 going	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 scared	parataxis
10	under	under	ADP	_	9 going	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the soldier					tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, he stayed stiff, didn't blink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blink	punct
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 blink	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 blink	advmod
9	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					stiff property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not blink	past · do-support	he not said here						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he was absolutely terrified and screamed the whole way down under the water

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 terrified	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 terrified	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	cop
5	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	6 terrified	advmod
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 screamed	cc
8	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 screamed	obj
12	down	down	ADV	_	8 screamed	advmod
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 screamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					absolutely, terrified property	tree rules
2	scream speech: express	past	he not said here	the whole way		the water		down property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was dead steady, no flinching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 steady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 steady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steady	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steady	amod
6	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flinching	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 flinching	det
9	flinching	flinching	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steady	conj

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

Option 4

Yeah, he was well petrified, shaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 petrified	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 petrified	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 petrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 petrified	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 petrified	advmod
6	petrified	petrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shaking	punct
8	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 petrified	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	petrify	past · passive		he				well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	shake	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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