Test 12 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…

Yo, what made Laufer look so pale?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Laufer · What happens: make, look · To what, where: Laufer

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Laufer	Laufer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 pale	advmod
8	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		Laufer					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	Laufer not said here					pale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

losing both her parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 parents	cc:preconj
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parents	nmod:poss
4	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		her parents					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Eventuality

Option 2

travelling far from her home kingdom in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 travelling	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 kingdom	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kingdom	nmod:poss
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kingdom	compound
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 far	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 winter	case
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 travelling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund					winter	far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

being separated from the man she loves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 separated	aux:pass
2	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 loves	advcl
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 separated	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loves	nsubj
7	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	gerund · passive	she not said here					from the man	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from man=Co-Patient
2	love	present	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

fear of her stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 stepmother	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stepmother	nmod:poss
4	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear			her stepmother					nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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