Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving moth…

did the stranger's voice hit her hard or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: voice · What happens: hit · To what, where: hard

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 809 «Andersen, The Child in the Grave, part 20: a grieving mother slips out to her son's grave at night and meets a stranger» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 voice	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 stranger	case
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nsubj
6	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hard	nmod:poss
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hit	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 hit	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · do-support	the stranger's voice	voice's hard					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hard=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

it went straight to her heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 heart	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it			her heart			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location

Option 2

it hit her like a wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 wave	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wave	det
6	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	it	her = she				like a wave	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 3

it rang in her ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ears	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ears	nmod:poss
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rang	obl

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

Option 4

it scared her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 scared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past	it	her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

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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