Test 11 · ★ · Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired,…

did the brothers give up looking, bro

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brothers · What happens: give up, look · To what, where: bro

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1183 «Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired, part 49: Ardan herds the old man's cows and is turned to stone» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brothers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 give	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present	the brothers						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	the brothers not said here	bro					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bro=Attribute

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 they searched by sea and land and never stopped mourning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 searched	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 searched	nsubj
3	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 searched	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sea	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	conj
11	mourning	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	search	past	they	by sea and land	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sea=Location
2	not stop	past	they not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	mourn	gerund	they not said here		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

nah they searched by sea and land and never stopped mourning, even when the whole village told them to go home

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 searched	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 searched	nsubj
3	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 searched	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sea	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	conj
11	mourning	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	18 told	advmod
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 village	amod
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	xcomp
22	home	home	ADV	_	21 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	search	past	they		by sea and land	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sea=Location
2	not stop	past	they not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	mourn	gerund	they not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	past	the whole village	sea		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the whole village not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah they searched a bit and then just went home quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 searched	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 searched	nsubj
3	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 searched	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	9 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	they	a bit					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bit=Location
2	go	past	they not said here				then	home, quietly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah they searched by sea and land and never stopped mourning, and they still walk the shore each evening at dusk

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 searched	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 searched	nsubj
3	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 searched	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 land	cc
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sea	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stopped	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	conj
11	mourning	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walk	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 walk	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 walk	nsubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 walk	advmod
16	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shore	det
18	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obj
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 evening	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obl:unmarked
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 dusk	case
22	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	they			by sea and land	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sea=Location
2	not stop	past	they not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	mourn	gerund	they not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	walk	present	sea	the shore	still; dusk; evening		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Trajectory

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