Test 9 · ★ · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

did the friends turn back when they saw the robbers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: turn back, see · To what, where: robbers

This is test 9 · ★ 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 friends	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friends	det
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 robbers	det
10	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	the friends						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	friends = friend	the robbers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robber=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, Rosald said no way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rosald	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they turned back but Rosald followed the path alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 followed	cc
7	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 followed	nsubj
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 followed	obj
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 followed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	they						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	follow	past	Rosald	the path				alone property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme

Option 3

nah, Rosald said no way and they pushed on together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pushed	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushed	nsubj
9	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 pushed	advmod
11	together	together	ADV	_	9 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rosald	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	push on	past	they					together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, Geirald said stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Geirald						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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