Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and the Huckster: the f…

was the student freaking out during the fire?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: student · What happens: be, freak out · To what, where: student

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 834 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goblin and the Huckster: the fire breaks out and the goblin saves the student's book» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 student	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 student	det
3	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	freaking	freak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 student	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 freaking	compound:prt
6	during	during	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freaking	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 student	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the student					tree rules
2	freak out	gerund	the student not said here				during the fire		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was just staring calm at the flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 staring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 staring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 staring	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 staring	advmod
6	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 staring	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 flames	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flames	det
10	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · progressive	he					at the flames; calm property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flame=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he screamed at the smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 screamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 screamed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 screamed	nsubj
4	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 smoke	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smoke	det
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 screamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	he			the smoke			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at smoke=Location

Option 3

no, he hid under the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he			the bed			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he was just staring calm at the flames from the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 staring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 staring	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 staring	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 staring	advmod
6	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 staring	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 flames	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flames	det
10	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 staring	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · progressive	he					from the window; at the flames; calm property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flame=Theme

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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