Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Youngest Prince and the Apples, part 23:…
Did the King actually get scared, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: get
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 256 «Fairy Tales, The Youngest Prince and the Apples, part 23: the bear's forest, the watch in the tree and the handkerchief test» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nah | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 nah | cc |
| 9 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 get | discourse |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the King | actually, 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he was scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | scared property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he was dead calm, didn't flinch once
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 |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flinch | punct |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 flinch | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 flinch | advmod |
| 10 | flinch | flinch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 calm | parataxis |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 flinch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not flinch | past · do-support | once property | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was shaking, like proper scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 shaking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shaking | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shaking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shaking | aux |
| 5 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shaking | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 scared | case |
| 8 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 9 scared | advmod |
| 9 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shaking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past · progressive | he | like scared | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, he was a bit wobbly, like
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 wobbly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wobbly | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wobbly | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wobbly | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wobbly | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | wobbly | wobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wobbly | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 wobbly | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | a bit obl:unmarked; wobbly property | tree rules |
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