Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home…

Was Rudy scared of the ice lady?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 858 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 69: Rudy walks home over the mountains, meets the strange maiden, then visits Babette at the mill» 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 scared	cop
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	compound
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 lady	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	compound
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of the ice lady; scared property	tree rules

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

yeah, he was super scared and ran all the way home to Bex without stopping once for breath

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obj
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Bex	case
14	Bex	Bex	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 way	nmod
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 stopping	mark
16	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ran	advcl
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 stopping	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 breath	case
19	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		scared, super property	tree rules
2	run	past	he not said here	all way	to Bex result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent way=Theme to bex=Result
3	stop	gerund	he not said here		for breath; once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

nah, he kinda was, not gonna lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 was	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lie	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lie	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 lie	advmod
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 lie	dep
9	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past						lie property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he said he is not scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scared	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	he					scared property	tree rules

Option 4

nah, he said he is not scared at all, though he was shaking inside and kept looking back over his shoulder

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scared	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 scared	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shaking	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 shaking	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shaking	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shaking	aux
15	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
16	inside	inside	ADV	_	15 shaking	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
19	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 kept	xcomp
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 looking	advmod
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 shoulder	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shoulder	nmod:poss
23	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	he	all	scared property	tree rules
3	shake	past · progressive	he		inside property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past	he not said here			tree rules
5	look back	gerund	he not said here		over his shoulder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Theme

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