Test 1 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…

Yo, the ball was buzzing like a phone on vibrate, so what did that mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ball, that · What happens: buzz, vibrate, mean

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 buzzing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buzzing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 buzzing	aux
6	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 phone	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 phone	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buzzing	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 vibrate	case
11	vibrate	vibrate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 buzzing	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mean	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 mean	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 mean	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mean	aux
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 mean	nsubj
17	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 buzzing	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 buzzing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	the ball	like a phone	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vibrate	infinitive			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	mean	past · do-support	that		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Trouble was coming, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coming	aux
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	Trouble					mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Danger, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Danger	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Danger	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Trouble was coming, so get moving now, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coming	aux
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 coming	advcl
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 get	xcomp
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 moving	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	Trouble	mate		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive	Trouble not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	move	gerund	Trouble not said here		now	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The ball wanted a snack now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snack	det
5	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the ball	a snack			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=Theme

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