Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is t…
Did the second son really ride off without looking back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, ride off, look back · To what, where: second son
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 116 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is turned to stone, then brought back to life with blood; three princes set out for the water of life» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 ride | advmod |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 ride | compound:prt |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ride | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 looking | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the second son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ride off | present | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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, he was well cheeky and didn't look round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 cheeky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheeky | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheeky | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheeky | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 cheeky | advmod |
| 6 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 look | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 look | advmod |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cheeky | conj |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | cheeky, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not look round | past · do-support | he not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yeah, he rode off quick, no goodbye
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 rode | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 rode | compound:prt |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rode | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goodbye | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 goodbye | det |
| 9 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past | he | no goodbye | quick property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Yeah, he was well cheeky and rode straight off without saying a word to anyone, not even his dad
The tree, 19 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 cheeky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheeky | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheeky | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheeky | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 cheeky | advmod |
| 6 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rode | cc |
| 8 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheeky | conj |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 off | advmod |
| 10 | off | off | ADV | _ | 8 rode | advmod |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 saying | mark |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rode | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 anyone | case |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 saying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dad | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 dad | advmod |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 dad | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dad | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cheeky | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | cheeky, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | he not said here | off property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | he not said here | a word | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to anyone=Recipient |
Option 4
Nah, he looked back loads of times and then came back to the castle to say sorry to the King
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 looked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 times | case |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loads | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 18 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 say | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 King | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sorry | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | he | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come back | past | he not said here | the castle | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: apologize | to-infinitive | he not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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