Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird'…

the youngest one was dead nervous, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest one · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 732 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird's revenge, then the twelve dancing princesses begin» 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 one	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nervous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nervous	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nervous	amod
6	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nervous	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	6 nervous	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nervous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the youngest one					nervous property	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

yeah, she kept saying that something was wrong and her heart was beating fast

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saying	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wrong	mark
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 wrong	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saying	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beating	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heart	nmod:poss
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 beating	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 beating	aux
14	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wrong	conj
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 beating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	something	wrong property	tree rules
3	beat	past · progressive	her heart	fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she said something was wrong and felt uneasy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 felt	cc
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	something	wrong property	tree rules
3	feel	past	she not said here	uneasy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she was nervous and worried about the noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 nervous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nervous	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nervous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nervous	cop
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 worried	cc
7	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nervous	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 noise	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 noise	det
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nervous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					about the noise; nervous property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here						tree rules

Option 4

yeah, she said something was wrong and she felt really uneasy about going down the stairs

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrong	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 felt	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 uneasy	advmod
12	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 felt	xcomp
13	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 felt	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stairs	det
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	something		wrong property	tree rules
3	feel	past	she		uneasy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	go down	gerund	she not said here	the stairs		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent

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