Test 7 · ★ · Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired,…

what did the staffs even do, be real

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 staffs	det
4	staffs	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 staffs	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 real	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the staffs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Eventuality
2	do	present	the staffs not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	infinitive			real 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

they doubled themselves and kept going out of reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 doubled	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 reach	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 reach	case
9	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	double	past	they	themselves = they	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	keep	past	they not said here		tree rules
3	go out	gerund	they not said here	reach	tree rules

Option 2

they doubled over and fled into the bushes far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 doubled	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fled	cc
5	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 bushes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bushes	det
8	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fled	obl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	2 doubled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double over	past	they					away, over property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	flee	past	they not said here			the bushes			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location

Option 3

they split apart and ran into the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 split	nsubj
2	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 split	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 split	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	past	they					apart property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	past	they not said here					into the trees result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result

Option 4

they doubled themselves and kept going out of reach no matter how fast Ardan ran after them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubled	nsubj
2	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 doubled	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 doubled	conj
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 reach	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 reach	case
9	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 matter	det
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ran	advmod
14	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	advcl
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	double	past	they	themselves = they			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	keep	past	they not said here				tree rules
3	go out	gerund	they not said here	reach		no matter obl	tree rules
4	run	past	Ardan		after them = they	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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