Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with…

Did the pigeons fly off, or just sit there gawping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pigeons · What happens: fly off, sit, gawp

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 120 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Briar Rose: the princess sleeps with the whole palace until a prince's kiss wakes her» 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 pigeons	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigeons	det
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fly	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 sit	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 sit	advmod
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fly	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 sit	advmod
11	gawping	gawp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sit	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	fly off	present	the pigeons		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	infinitive	the pigeons not said here	there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	gawp	gerund	the pigeons not said here		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 flew off into the fields

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	They					into the fields result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result

Option 2

They flew off into the fields and never came back to the palace

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	They					into the fields result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result
2	not come back	past	They not said here			the palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location

Option 3

They flew off into the big green fields far beyond the castle walls

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fields	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fields	amod
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 flew	advmod
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	13 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 walls	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walls	compound
13	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	They			the big green fields		beyond the castle walls; far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond wall=Location

Option 4

They sat on the roof gawping

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 roof	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roof	det
5	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	gawping	gawp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	They			the roof			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
2	gawp	gerund	They not said here						tree rules

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