Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…

Did the youngest pair go down last?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest pair · What happens: go down

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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	4 pair	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pair	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 pair	amod
4	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	present	the youngest pair					down, last property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Yes, the youngest pair went last, after both elder couples had already gone

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pair	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pair	amod
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	last	last	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 couples	det
11	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 couples	amod
12	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
14	already	already	ADV	_	15 gone	advmod
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youngest pair					last property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	both elder couples						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the youngest pair went last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pair	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pair	amod
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	last	last	ADV	_	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youngest pair					last property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they went down at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	they				at the end	down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location

Option 4

No, the eldest went first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 eldest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eldest	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the eldest					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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