Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king'…

did the husband catch the buffalo following them home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband, buffalo · What happens: catch, follow · To what, where: buffalo, them

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1168 «Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king's magic is ruined, and a bride asks for a buffalo» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buffalo	det
6	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
7	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 buffalo	acl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 following	obj
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 following	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support	the husband	the buffalo					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
2	follow	gerund	the buffalo not said here	them = they				home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he didn't see it at all, he was oblivious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 see	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 oblivious	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 oblivious	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 oblivious	cop
13	oblivious	oblivious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 see	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	he	it		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is	past	he					oblivious property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, he didn't see it, but his wife did and she kept quiet about it the whole walk home

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 kept	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	nsubj
15	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 did	conj
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kept	xcomp
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 walk	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 walk	amod
21	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 kept	advcl
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	he	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	do	past	his wife			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	wife		about it; quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location

Option 3

yeah, he turned around and gasped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gasped	cc
7	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	past	he					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	gasp	past	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, he was too busy talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 talking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talking	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 busy	advmod
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talking	amod
7	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	busy talking					tree rules

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