Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a…

Did Elsa tell anyone she was scared?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Elsa · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1751 «Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a magic garden, sails a sea made from a shell, and becomes a new daughter» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 tell	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 anyone	acl:relcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Elsa		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	is	past	Elsa					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

Yeah, she whispered to the old man about her fear of the snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 whispered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 whispered	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 fear	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fear	nmod:poss
11	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 snake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snake	det
14	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	she		the old man about her fear of the snake				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
2	fear		her = she	the snake					nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she kneeled down and sobbed to the lady about her stepmum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kneeled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kneeled	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kneeled	nsubj
4	kneeled	kneele	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 kneeled	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sobbed	cc
7	sobbed	sob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kneeled	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 lady	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sobbed	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 stepmum	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stepmum	nmod:poss
13	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kneele down	past	she						tree rules
2	sob	participle	she not said here		the lady about her stepmum				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lady=Recipient

Option 3

Nah, she stayed silent and just stared at the floor for the whole evening

The tree, 14 words

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stared	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 stared	advmod
8	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 evening	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 evening	amod
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she					silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stare	past	she not said here				evening	at the floor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at floor=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she hid behind the old man and said nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hid	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	she					behind the old man	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind man=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	she not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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