Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

What did the boy think of his mum's threats?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: think

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 think	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 threats	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threats	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mum	case
10	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 think	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the boy					of boy's mum's threats	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

he was scared and ran upstairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
6	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	run	past	he not said here					upstairs property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

just a laugh, he wasnae bothered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	3 laugh	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 laugh	det
3	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 laugh	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wasnae	nsubj
6	wasnae	wasnae	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	acl:relcl
7	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wasnae	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wasnae	past	he	a laugh not said here					tree rules
2	bother	participle	he not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

he cared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cared	nsubj
2	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care	past	he						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he took them dead serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 serious	amod
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	them = they				serious property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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