Test 8 · ★ · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

Did the eldest son go off to find her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest son · What happens: go off, find · To what, where: her

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	5 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 go	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · do-support	the eldest son						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	the eldest son not said here	her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

Nah, he stayed put and sent a message

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sent	cc
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 put	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 message	det
9	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		he					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	send	participle		a message					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he rode off to find her soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 rode	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rode	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride off	past	he						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she				soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he only heard about her from travellers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 travellers	case
9	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he			travellers		about her = she	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.source»: agent=Agent about she=Theme from traveller=Source

Option 4

Nah, he just heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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