Test 4 · ★ · Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the…

Was the nun just having a kip when the princess sneaked past?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nun, princess · What happens: be, have, sneak past · To what, where: nun, kip

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1809 «Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nun	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nun	det
3	nun	nun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	nsubj:outer
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 having	advmod
5	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kip	det
7	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 having	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 sneaked	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sneaked	nsubj
11	sneaked	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 having	advcl
12	past	past	ADV	_	11 sneaked	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 having	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the nun		tree rules
2	have	gerund	the nun	a kip		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=Patient
3	sneak past	past	the princess		past property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

yeah, she was kipping on the step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 kipping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kipping	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kipping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kipping	aux
5	kipping	kip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 step	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 step	det
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kipping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kip	past · progressive	she					on the step	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, she was snoring in the choir

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 snoring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snoring	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snoring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snoring	aux
5	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 choir	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 choir	det
8	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snoring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past · progressive	she					in the choir	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in choir=Theme

Option 3

no, she was wide awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 awake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awake	cop
5	wide	wide	ADV	_	6 awake	advmod
6	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					awake, wide property	tree rules

Option 4

no, she was up at the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 was	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 altar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 altar	det
8	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be up	past	she			the altar			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at altar=Location

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