Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

Wait, why were the neighbours calling her Seagull anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, neighbours · What happens: wait, call · To what, where: Seagull · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 calling	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 calling	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 calling	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neighbours	det
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 calling	nsubj
7	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Seagull	nmod:poss
9	Seagull	seagull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calling	obj
10	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 calling	advmod
11	?	?	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	call	past · progressive	the neighbours	her Seagull				anyway property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent seagull=Recipient

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

she screamed at the boats all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 screamed	nsubj
2	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 boats	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boats	det
5	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 screamed	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 screamed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	she			the boats	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at boat=Location

Option 2

she flew round the harbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 harbour	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harbour	det
5	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	she			the harbour			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round harbour=Trajectory

Option 3

she lived by the sea and was always catching fish with her bare hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catching	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 catching	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 catching	advmod
9	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lived	conj
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catching	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 hands	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
13	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hands	amod
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 catching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	she					by the sea	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
2	catch	past · progressive	she not said here	fish				with fish's bare hands; always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

her skin was white as a gull's breast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 breast	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gull	det
7	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 breast	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 gull	case
9	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 white	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her skin					as a gull's breast; white property	tree rules

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