Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

Did the clock like just stop dead, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, stop · To what, where: clock

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clock	det
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 stop	mark
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	advcl
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stop	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the clock					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Eventuality
2	stop	present						dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

yeah, it went proper bump and then just stopped dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bump	amod
6	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stopped	advmod
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	proper bump					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bump=Theme
2	stop	past					then	dead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

yeah, it went bump and then quietly ticked again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ticked	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ticked	advmod
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	9 ticked	advmod
9	ticked	tick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 ticked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	bump					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bump=Theme
2	tick	participle					then; again	quietly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it went bump and stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stopped	cc
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	bump					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bump=Theme
2	stop	past							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

yeah, it went clang and quit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clang	clang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quit	cc
7	quit	quit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it	clang and quit					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clang=Theme

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