Test 5 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…

wait, did her bros catch her in time

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bros · What happens: wait, catch · To what, where: her

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2055 «Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a snow-white bull into the sea» 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	_	6 catch	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bros	nmod:poss
5	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl

#	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	catch	past · do-support	her bros	her = she			time		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

nope, they ran after her but the bull was much too fast for them

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 fast	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bull	det
9	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fast	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fast	cop
11	much	much	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ran	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	they				after her = she	for them = they	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary
2	is	past	the bull					fast property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah, they grabbed her arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arm	nmod:poss
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	they	her arm					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

Option 3

nope, they stood far back and could only scream helplessly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scream	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 scream	aux
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 scream	advmod
10	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	conj
11	helplessly	helplessly	ADV	_	10 scream	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	they						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scream speech: express	could	they not said here					helplessly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nope, they were too far off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 far	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 far	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 far	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	root	root

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

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