Test 7 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth, part 16: Cilix stays…

Real talk, what did Telephassa keep hearing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Telephassa · What happens: keep · To what, where: Real talk

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 keep	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
6	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
8	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Telephassa	Real talk					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme hearing=Attribute

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

Her daughter yelling "Mother!" in the dark while she lay awake each night

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	nsubj
3	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dark	det
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 lay	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 yelling	advcl
14	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lay	xcomp
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	gerund	Her daughter	Mother		the dark			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	lie	past	daughter				night	awake property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Her daughter yelling "Mother!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	nsubj
3	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	gerund	Her daughter	Mother					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic

Option 3

Thunder rolling over the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Thunder	acl
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 hills	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hills	det
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund	Thunder not said here			the hills			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory

Option 4

Her daughter yelling "Mother!" again and again from the far shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 daughter	acl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
5	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Mother	punct
8	again	again	ADV	_	3 yelling	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 again	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 again	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shore	det
13	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shore	amod
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	gerund	Her daughter not said here	Mother		the far shore	again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic

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