Test 12 · ★ · Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, p…

so did Alfred get scared by the vision?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 341 «Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar, part 1: Alfred shares his last bread and wine, then sees a vision» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 vision	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vision	det
8	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scared	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Alfred					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

nah, he was not afraid at all, he just stood there amazed and in awe of it

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 afraid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 afraid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stood	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 stood	advmod
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amazed	advcl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stood	advmod
14	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afraid	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 awe	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 awe	case
17	awe	awe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awe	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	he		all	afraid property	tree rules
2	stand	past	he		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be		he not said here				tree rules
4	awe			awe			nom awe «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was not afraid at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 afraid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afraid	advmod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	he			all		afraid property	tree rules

Option 3

yeah, he was totally scared at first, but then he got over it and felt fine

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 got	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	parataxis
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 felt	cc
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	conj
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			scared, totally property	tree rules
2	get	past	he	it	then		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination
3	feel	past	he not said here			fine property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

nah, he felt pretty brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 felt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 brave	advmod
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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