Test 9 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy golds…

did the doves just sit there being sad for no reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, be · To what, where: doves

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1153 «Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy goldsmith is undone, and a kind stepdaughter is rewarded by doves» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doves	det
3	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sit	advmod
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 reason	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 reason	det
11	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sad	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the doves					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Eventuality
2	is	present						for no reason; sad property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were soaked and hungry, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 soaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soaked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soaked	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	aux:pass
5	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hungry	cc
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soaked	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soaked	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	past · passive		they				mate vocative	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 2

Yeah, they were soaked, hungry, and stuck on the axe handle, mate, poor things

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 soaked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soaked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soaked	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soaked	aux:pass
5	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soaked	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuck	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stuck	cc
10	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 soaked	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 handle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 handle	det
13	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handle	compound
14	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mate	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handle	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 things	punct
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 things	amod
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 handle	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	past · passive		they					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	stick	participle				the axe handle and mate and poor things			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on handle=Destination

Option 3

Nah, they were just happy birds, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 birds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 birds	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 birds	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 birds	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 birds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	happy birds and mate					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they were tired and cold, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tired	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					mate vocative; tired property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

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