Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

the second visitor opened the cupboard, what then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second visitor · What happens: open · To what, where: cupboard

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 visitor	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 visitor	amod
3	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cupboard	det
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 cupboard	appos
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 what	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the second visitor	the cupboard					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cupboard=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 · ← Mova's choice

they froze in the corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 froze	nsubj
2	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 corner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corner	det
5	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 froze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	they			the corner			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

they ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	they						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the mice ran back, trembling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trembling	punct
6	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run back	past	the mice						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tremble	gerund	the mice not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the mice hid again, shaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 hid	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shaking	punct
6	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the mice				again		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	gerund	the mice not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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