Test 5 · ★ · Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114:…

sus fr, why did the van go zooming like that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: van · What happens: go, zoom

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 903 «Picture-Book without Pictures, The Moon's Tales, part 114: Greenland, the old maid's coffin, Pompeii» 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	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fr	amod
2	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 go	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 van	det
7	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fr	conj
9	zooming	zoom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 go	xcomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 zooming	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the van						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	zoom	gerund	the van not said here					like that	vn run-51.3.2 «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

A cart hit a wall, horses ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wall	det
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	nsubj
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a cart	a wall					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
2	run	past	horses						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He lost control

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	control					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Eventuality

Option 3

Scared horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 horses	amod
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The coachman got scared, lashed the horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lashed	punct
6	lashed	lash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horses	det
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the coachman					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	lash	past	the coachman not said here	the horses					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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