Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

innit, what did the nurse do when the dwarf ran off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: innit, dwarf · What happens: do, run off · To what, where: nurse

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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	innit	innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	aux
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 ran	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dwarf	det
10	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	innit	the nurse					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Eventuality
2	run off	present · do-support	the dwarf						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Shouted after him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle					after him = he		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	participle							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Clapped her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past		her hands					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme

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