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Test 9 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

Your cousin says something grabs your ankle if you look under the bed at midnight. What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, something, you · What happens: say, grab, look, happen · To what, where: ankle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» of the myths 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 cousin says something grabs your ankle if you look under the bed at midnight.

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 grabs	nsubj
5	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ankle	nmod:poss
7	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabs	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 look	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grabs	advcl
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bed	det
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 midnight	case
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grab	present	something	your ankle					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme
3	look a condition, not said to happen	present	you				midnight	under the bed	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under bed=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: What would really happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The whole bed would start to shake and float up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bed	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bed	amod
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 start	aux
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shake	mark
7	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 start	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 float	cc
9	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shake	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 float	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	the whole bed						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake	to-infinitive	the whole bed not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	float up	infinitive	the whole bed not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing; you'd see dust and maybe a lost sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sock	cc
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	11 sock	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sock	det
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sock	amod
11	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	you	dust					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dust=Stimulus
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A cold bony hand would reach out and grab your arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hand	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
3	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hand	amod
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 reach	aux
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 reach	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grab	cc
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reach	conj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arm	nmod:poss
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach out	would	a cold bony hand						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grab	infinitive	a cold bony hand not said here	your arm					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

Option 4

You'd fall into a deep sleep and never wake up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sleep	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleep	amod
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wake	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 wake	advmod
10	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fall	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 wake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	You					into a deep sleep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result
2	not wake up	infinitive	You not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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