Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

Were the nymphs gutted about it, or what?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2067 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits Circe with a magic flower and frightens her into begging for mercy» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nymphs	det
3	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Were	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nymphs	acl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gutted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Were	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the nymphs						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gut	participle		the nymphs not said here				about it	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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

They got really cross and shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shouted	cc
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	shout speech: express	participle	They not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They ran off into the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	They					into the woods result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They fell to their knees and begged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 knees	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 knees	nmod:poss
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
7	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	They					to their knees	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to knee=Theme
2	beg speech: request	participle	They not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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