Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…
did the sisters get stuck in place or just chill for a bit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sisters · What happens: do, get, chill
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sisters | det |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | ccomp |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 chill | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 chill | advmod |
| 10 | chill | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stuck | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 bit | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bit | det |
| 13 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chill | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the sisters | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | chill | infinitive | the sisters not said here | for a bit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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
They were stuck for an hour
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 | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | cop |
| 3 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 hour | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | hour | stuck property | tree rules |
Option 2
They got stuck in one spot for a whole day and night, and nobody came to help them
The tree, 18 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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 spot | nummod |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 night | cc |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 day | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | They | one spot | day | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | come | past | nobody | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | them = they | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They got stuck for a whole day
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | They | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
They got stuck in place for a whole day and then the spell wore off at dusk
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 got | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wore | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 wore | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spell | det |
| 13 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 wore | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 dusk | case |
| 17 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wore | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | They | day | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wear off | past | the spell | then; dusk | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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