Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

dude, why was Bucephalus so scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be · To what, where: Bucephalus

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Bucephalus	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 dude	acl:relcl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Bucephalus	cop
5	Bucephalus	Bucephalus	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Bucephalus	amod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Bucephalus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dude	Bucephalus					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was scared of his own shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 shadow	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shadow	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shadow	amod
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of his own shadow; scared property	tree rules
2	shadow		his = he						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Just a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 horse	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

He hated the new stable hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hands	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
5	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	He	the new stable hands					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus

Option 4

He was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	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

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