Test 12 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Pinkel, part 27: Pinkel steals the witch'…

Was the brothers' plan with the goat any good then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: plan

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1161 «Pink Fairy Book, Pinkel, part 27: Pinkel steals the witch's golden lantern and then her goat, while his jealous brothers plot against 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plan	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 brothers	case
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 goat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goat	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plan	nmod
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 good	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	conj
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 good	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the brothers's plan				with the goat	tree rules
2	be						then		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

Yeah, it worked well except for the bells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 worked	advmod
6	except	except	ADP	_	9 bells	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 bells	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it					except the bells; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, the goat ran off before they got there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goat	det
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	advcl
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the goat						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	they			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they thought the bells would warn the witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bells	det
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 warn	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 warn	aux
8	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	would	the bells		the witch				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they thought the bells would warn the witch so they were stuffed with wool by Pinkel

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bells	det
6	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 warn	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 warn	aux
8	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warn	obj
11	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 stuffed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stuffed	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stuffed	aux:pass
14	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 wool	case
16	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stuffed	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 Pinkel	case
18	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	would	the bells		the witch		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient
3	stuff	past · passive	Pinkel	bells = bell		with wool	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination with wool=Theme

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