--- title: Scared much, why did the boy yell after him? — Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt… · tree and pragmatics description: Scared much, why did the boy yell after him? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/784-pg2591-part60/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: hunt…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/784-pg2591-part60/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild… Scared much, why did the boy yell after him? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** boy yell This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 784 «Grimm's Tales, Iron Hans, part 1: huntsmen vanish, a wild man is caged, a boy frees him» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/784-pg2591-part60/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t11:1 # text = Scared much, why did the boy yell after him? 1 Scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 yell yell NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the boy yell | | | after him *= he* | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Eventuality | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} he feared a scolding ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t11:o1:1 # text = he feared a scolding 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 scolding scolding NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past | he | a scolding | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scolding=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} he wanted help ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t11:o2:1 # text = he wanted help 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | he | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} he feared a beating ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t11:o3:1 # text = he feared a beating 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 beating beating NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past | he | a beating | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beating=Stimulus | ### Option 4 {#o4} he was scared ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:784-pg2591-part60:t11:o4:1 # text = he was scared 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | **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. 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