Test 8 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 26: Ulysses outwits…

Was Circe well scared when he pulled out his sword?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Circe · What happens: be, pull out · To what, where: sword

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
2	Circe	Circe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 pulled	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 pulled	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sword	nmod:poss
10	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulled	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Circe					scared, well property	tree rules
2	pull out	past	Circe	Circe's sword					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

She went pale with real fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 fear	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fear	amod
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	She					with real fear; pale property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with fear=Beneficiary

Option 2

She laughed a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3

She fell down in a faint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 faint	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 faint	det
6	faint	faint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	She			a faint		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in faint=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She nearly died of pure fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fright	case
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fright	amod
6	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	She					of pure fright; nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fright=Causer

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