Test 12 · ★ · The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dan…

Was it pitch black when the Kid got lost, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: Kid

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 362 «The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dances for a wolf is saved by the Shepherd Dogs» 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 pitch	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pitch	nsubj
3	pitch	pitch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pitch	xcomp
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Kid	det
7	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pitch	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pitch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					black, pitch property	tree rules
2	lose	past · passive		the Kid				mate vocative	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was getting dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 getting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 getting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	it					dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the sun was still going down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past · progressive	the sun				still	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yeah, pitch black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 pitch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	pitch	pitch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pitch	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pitch	imperative	you not said here					black property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, the moon was out already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 out	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
6	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
7	already	already	ADV	_	6 out	advmod

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

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