Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…

How did the guys outside react when they heard him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guys · What happens: do, react, hear · To what, where: him

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 742 «Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a unicorn and a boar, and frightens off his foes» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guys	det
4	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 react	nsubj
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 react	advmod
6	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 react	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	react	present	the guys		outside property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	guys = guy	him = he		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=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 · ← Mova's choice

They fled as if chased by wolves

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 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 chased	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 chased	mark
5	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fled	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 wolves	case
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	They						tree rules
2	chase a condition, not said to happen	participle	They not said here					by wolves	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by wolf=Trajectory

Option 2

They ran off screaming into the woods like they'd seen a ghost

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
4	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 screaming	obl
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 seen	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
10	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ghost	det
13	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	run off	past	They			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund	They not said here		the woods	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into wood=Recipient
3	see	past · perfect	woods = wood	a ghost		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

Option 3

They froze in fear and stayed still

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	_	4 fear	case
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 froze	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stayed	cc
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 froze	conj
7	still	still	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	They			fear			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stay	past	They not said here				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They ran off like they'd seen a ghost

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
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 seen	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ghost	det
9	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obj

#	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
2	see	past · perfect	they	a ghost					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ghost=Stimulus

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