Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Yo, did the farmer get proper scared or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: do, get

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 scared	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the farmer					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Dead scared, he nearly bottled it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bottled	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bottled	nsubj
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 bottled	advmod
6	bottled	bottle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scared	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bottled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bottle	past	he	it				nearly property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Quite scared, he hid in the closet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hid	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 closet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 closet	det
8	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he			the closet			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location

Option 3

Nah, he was dead calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calm	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calm	amod
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					calm property	tree rules

Option 4

Dead scared, he nearly bottled it and hid behind the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bottled	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bottled	nsubj
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 bottled	advmod
6	bottled	bottle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scared	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bottled	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hid	cc
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bottled	conj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bottle	past	he	it				nearly property	vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hide	past	he not said here			the door			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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