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Test 7 · ★★ · Building tension and suspense

Your sister, dead sarcastic: "Wow, a ghost appeared and then left. Terrifying." What is she hinting?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, ghost · What happens: appear, leave, hint

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 42 «Building tension and suspense» 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

Sentence 1: Your sister, dead sarcastic: "Wow, a ghost appeared and then left.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sarcastic	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sarcastic	amod
5	sarcastic	sarcastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 appeared	punct
8	Wow	wow	INTJ	_	12 appeared	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Wow	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ghost	det
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 left	advmod
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 appeared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear in a quote	past	Your sister and dead sarcastic						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave in a quote	past	Your sister and dead sarcastic not said here				then		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Terrifying."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Terrifying	terrifying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Terrifying	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Terrifying	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is she hinting?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hinting	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hinting	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hinting	nsubj
4	hinting	hint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hinting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hint speech: other	present · progressive	ghost						vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

She is truly terrified now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 terrified	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
3	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 terrified	advmod
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 terrified	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She				now	terrified, truly property	tree rules

Option 2

The story needs more ghosts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ghosts	amod
5	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the story	more ghosts					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ghost=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Ghosts should never appear in stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 appear	advmod
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 stories	case
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not appear	should	Ghosts			stories			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ghost scene went by far too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scene	det
2	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scene	compound
3	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the ghost scene					fast property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by far=Location

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