Test 10 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

Was the Swallow scared of the rain at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, scare · To what, where: Swallow

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Swallow	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Swallow	det
3	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	csubj
4	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 rain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rain	det
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 scared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Swallow					tree rules
2	scare	past						of the rain	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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was just chilling by the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 chilling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chilling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chilling	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 chilling	advmod
6	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 bank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bank	compound
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chilling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	he					by the river bank	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, he was on about needing a chimney-pot to hide in and keep dry from the storm

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 needing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 needing	aux
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 needing	mark
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 needing	mark
7	needing	need	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pot	det
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pot	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 chimney	punct
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needing	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hide	mark
13	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needing	advcl
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 hide	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 keep	cc
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hide	conj
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	xcomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 storm	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 storm	det
20	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	past · progressive	he	a chimney pot			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pot=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	infinitive	he not said here		the storm	dry property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from storm=Eventuality

Option 3

Yeah, he was well scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 scared	advmod
6	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, well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was on about a chimney-pot to hide in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 pot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pot	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pot	cop
5	on	on	ADV	_	10 pot	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 pot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pot	det
8	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pot	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 chimney	punct
10	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pot	acl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about a chimney pot	tree rules
2	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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