Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…

How did the mum react when she saw him?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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	5 react	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 react	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 react	nsubj
5	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 react	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 react	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	react	past · do-support	the mum						tree rules
2	see	past	mum	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

She laughed, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 innit	punct
4	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laughed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	She						tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	She not said here						tree rules

Option 2

She fainted, cos she was shocked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fainted	nsubj
2	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shocked	punct
4	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 shocked	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shocked	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shocked	cop
7	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fainted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	faint	past	She						vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	she					shocked property	tree rules

Option 3

She wept, cos she'd been ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ill	punct
4	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 ill	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ill	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ill	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 ill	cop
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	She						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past · perfect	she					ill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She bawled, cos she hadn't cried for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bawled	nsubj
2	bawled	bawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
4	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 cried	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cried	advmod
8	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 bawled	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bawl speech: other	past	She						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not cry speech: express	past · perfect	she				year		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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