Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

how did the King react when he woke up, was he well shocked?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: react, wake up, shock

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 react	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 react	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 react	nsubj
5	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shocked	advcl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 woke	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woke	nsubj
8	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 react	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 woke	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woke	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shocked	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shocked	nsubj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 shocked	advmod
14	shocked	shock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 shocked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	react	past · do-support	the King		tree rules
2	wake up	past	King		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	shock	past · passive	King	well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

he was struck dumb

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	3 struck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	aux:pass
3	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 struck	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive		he				dumb property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument

Option 2

he just fell straight back to sleep again

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	3 fell	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 back	advmod
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	advcl
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	he not said here				again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he was well angry

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	4 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 angry	advmod
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry, well property	tree rules

Option 4

he was dead chuffed

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	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dead	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					dead property	tree rules
2	chuff	participle							tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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