Test 10 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake…

What did everyone do when the snake rolled in, like, really?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: do, roll in · To what, where: snake

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1904 «Italian Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Snake, part 1: a snake asks to marry the 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 rolled	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rolled	nsubj:pass
8	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 do	advcl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 rolled	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	8 rolled	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	really	really	ADV	_	8 rolled	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	everyone						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	roll in	participle · passive		the snake					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent

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

fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

ran away in fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 ran	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past				fear		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ran off screaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt
3	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

hid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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