Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…

Lol, what did she do when he started yelling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, he · What happens: do, start, yell

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 started	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 started	nsubj
9	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	advcl
10	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 started	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	she	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	start	past	he	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	yell speech: express	gerund	he not said here	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

she yelled back

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 yelled	nsubj
2	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 yelled	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she sang that song again, bet

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 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bet	punct
7	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she	that song			again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she cried a lot

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obj

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

Option 4

she started laughing at the king

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 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	she						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	laugh	gerund	she not said here					at the king	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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