Test 13 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Was the mum scared when the Douglas popped up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, Douglas · What happens: be, scare, pop up · To what, where: mum

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mum	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mum	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
4	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 popped	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Douglas	det
7	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 popped	nsubj
8	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 popped	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the mum	tree rules
2	scare	past	the mum		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	pop up	past	the Douglas		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, she wasn't scared at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scared	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, she screamed loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 screamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	nsubj
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 screamed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	she					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she was terrified

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 terrified	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrified	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 terrified	cop
5	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yeah, she jumped and dropped the child right where she stood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 jumped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dropped	cc
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 where	advmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 stood	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	jump	past	she	the child	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Agent
2	drop	past	she not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	past	child		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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