Test 5 · ★ · Fronted adverbials

★★★ Which sentence does NOT have a fronted adverbial?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★ ★ · What happens: not have, front · To what, where: fronted adverbial

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» of the English 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj:outer
4	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 sentence	det
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adverbial	det
10	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 adverbial	amod
11	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	★ ★ ★	a fronted adverbial					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adverbial=Patient
2	front	participle							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

In the night, the dog barked loudly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	nsubj
7	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 barked	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog				night	loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Loudly, the dog barked in the night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 barked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Loudly	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	nsubj
5	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog				night	loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Suddenly, the dog barked.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 barked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Suddenly	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	nsubj
5	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog					suddenly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The dog barked loudly in the night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barked	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 barked	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barked	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog				night	loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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