Test 12 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

Why did Telephassa's heart hurt when she spoke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heart · What happens: do, hurt, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2057 «Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays behind, Thasus stops, and Telephassa and Cadmus walk on alone» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	advcl
3	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heart	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Telephassa	case
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	nsubj
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 spoke	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hurt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Telephassa's heart not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	past	Telephassa's heart	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past	heart	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Admitting her hopes were fading, since the search had gone on so long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admitting	admit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gone	advcl
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hopes	nmod:poss
3	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fading	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fading	aux
5	fading	fade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Admitting	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 search	det
9	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 long	case
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	admit speech: other	gerund	the search not said here	vn confess-37.10 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fade	past · progressive	her hopes	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	go	past · perfect	the search	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on long=Location
4	hope		her = she	nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Admitting her hopes were fading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admitting	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fading	csubj
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hopes	nmod:poss
3	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Admitting	obj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fading	aux
5	fading	fade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	admit speech: other	gerund		her hopes	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Theme
2	fade	past · progressive	Admitting		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hope		her = she		nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Admitting her hopes were fading and that she might never see Europa again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admitting	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fading	nsubj
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hopes	nmod:poss
3	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fading	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fading	aux
5	fading	fade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fading	conj
12	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	admit speech: other	gerund				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	fade	past · progressive				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not see	might	she	Europa	again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer europa=Stimulus
4	hope		her = she			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Walking without her son Thasus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Thasus	csubj
2	without	without	ADP	_	4 son	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 son	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
5	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						without her son	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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