Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

Bruv, why did she just freeze and go dumb at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: do, freeze, go · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 freeze	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 freeze	advmod
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	7 freeze	conj
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	present	Bruv			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go	present	Bruv not said here	at the end	dumb property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=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 · ✓ the right answer

she was dumb with fright

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	3 dumb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dumb	cop
3	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fright	case
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dumb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with fright; dumb property	tree rules

Option 2

she was stunned silent

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stun	past · passive		she				silent property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3

she was too dumb with fright to speak

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	4 dumb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dumb	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dumb	advmod
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fright	case
6	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dumb	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 speak	mark
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dumb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					with fright; dumb property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

she felt quite sick and ill

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 sick	advmod
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ill	cc
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she					sick property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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