Test 7 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

did the robbers see them coming at all?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robbers, them · What happens: see, come · To what, where: them, all

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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 robbers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 see	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 coming	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	the robbers	them = they					tree rules
2	come	gerund	them = they not said here			all			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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

yeah, they spotted them early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spotted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	nsubj
4	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spotted	obj
6	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 spotted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	they	them = they				early property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they were just waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 waiting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waiting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 waiting	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 waiting	advmod
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, they were busy eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 busy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 busy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					busy property	tree rules
2	eat	gerund	they not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, a scout had warned them about the two young men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 warned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 warned	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scout	det
4	scout	scout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warned	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 warned	aux
6	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warned	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 men	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 men	nummod
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · perfect · passive		a scout	them = they			about the two young men	tree rules

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