Test 3 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans…

Wait, that stranger woke him up, right, like proper creepy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, stranger · What happens: wait, wake up · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1787 «Northern Tales, The Underground Workers, part 1: lost Hans is led to a cave of gold and tiny smiths» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 woke	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 woke	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 creepy	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 creepy	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creepy	amod
13	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	past	that stranger	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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, he was super creepy and kept staring at him with weird eyes all night long

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 creepy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creepy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 creepy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 creepy	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 creepy	advmod
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 creepy	conj
9	staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 staring	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eyes	amod
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 staring	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 staring	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 staring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		creepy, super property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he not said here			tree rules
3	stare	gerund	he not said here	night	at him = he; with weird eyes; long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He woke him up to give him a hot drink and then vanished into the snowy trees without a word

The tree, 20 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 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 woke	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 woke	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 woke	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drink	det
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drink	amod
10	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 vanished	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 vanished	advmod
13	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
16	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trees	amod
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vanished	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 word	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 word	det
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vanished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	He	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	give	to-infinitive	He not said here	a hot drink	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=Theme
3	vanish	past	He not said here			the snowy trees	then	without a word	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He said the wolves were coming for 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 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolves	det
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 coming	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past · progressive	the wolves					for him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He warned him he'd get buried in snow

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 warned	nsubj
2	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buried	nsubj:pass
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 buried	aux
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 buried	aux:pass
7	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 warned	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 snow	case
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	He		him = he				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bury	would · passive		he		snow			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in snow=Destination

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