Test 9 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Dragon's Teeth, part 14: Europa rides a s…

were her bros like, scared for her

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

This is test 9 · ★ 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	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bros	cop
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bros	nmod:poss
3	bros	bro	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 scared	case
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bros	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		her bros				like scared	tree rules

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

yeah, they screamed and cried and ran after him down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 screamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 screamed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	nsubj
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 screamed	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 screamed	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	obl
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	they			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	they not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	past	they not said here	the hill	after him = he	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory

Option 2

yeah, they shouted and wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	they						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	they not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yes, they were very worried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they screamed and cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 screamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 screamed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	nsubj
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 screamed	conj

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

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