Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

was she scared of the voices at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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	3 scared	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 voices	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 voices	det
6	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 voices	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of the voices at all; scared property	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, she cried the whole way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she	the whole way					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 2

yeah, she screamed loudly

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	nsubj
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 screamed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	she					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, she just laughed at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obl

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

Option 4

nope, she ran back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run back	past	she						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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