Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

Gutted, why did he stand at the door like a lemon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: gut, stand · To what, where: door

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stand	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stand	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 lemon	discourse
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lemon	det
12	lemon	lemon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	he not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past · do-support	he			the door			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location

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

to see if she knew him or if he'd gone totally mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 gone	cc
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 knew	conj
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 mad	advmod
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	she	him = he		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	go a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	he		mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to see if she knew him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 knew	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	she	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

because he was too scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

cos he was too nervous to walk in and say hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nervous	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nervous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nervous	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 nervous	advmod
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nervous	advcl
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 walk	conj
11	hello	hello	INTJ	_	10 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	cos	nervous property	tree rules
2	walk in	to-infinitive	cos not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	cos not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

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