Test 10 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Why was the husband's wife so wound up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: be, wound up

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 husband	det
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 husband	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 wound	advmod
8	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wife	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 wound	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the husband's wife					why property	tree rules
2	wound up	infinitive	the husband's wife not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

he kept her in the dark

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	her = she		the dark			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in dark=Location

Option 2

he never let any light in at the window

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 let	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let in	past	he	any light		the window			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent light=Theme at window=Asset

Option 3

he never let her out

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 let	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let out	past	he	her = she					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he never let any light in

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 let	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	3 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let in	past	he	any light					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

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