Test 6 · ★ · pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56:…

Did the old horse actually talk to her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old horse · What happens: do, talk · To what, where: old horse, horse

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1805 «pg641 tales, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 56: a princess becomes a duck, and a girl rides off to serve as a son» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 horse	amod
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 talk	advmod
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 horse	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talk	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old horse					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
2	talk	infinitive	the old horse not said here		horse			actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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

Nah, he just neighed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 neighed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 neighed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 neighed	advmod
5	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	past	he						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yup, he neighed and said she looked gentle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 neighed	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 neighed	nsubj
4	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 neighed	conj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
9	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	neigh	past	he	Yup		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	past	she		gentle property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Nope, he only snorted at her and ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 snorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snorted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 snorted	advmod
5	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snorted	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snorted	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snort	past	he					at her = she	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run off	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yup, he whinnied and said she was weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whinnied	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 whinnied	nsubj
4	whinnied	whinny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whinnied	conj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 weak	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 weak	cop
9	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	whinny	past	he	Yup		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	she		weak property	tree rules

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