Test 2 · ★ · Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, part 26: the e…

bro the trunks kept getting emptier right

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: keep, get

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1439 «Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast, part 26: the enchanted palace, the gifts and the Prince's portrait» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trunks	det
3	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bro	conj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	emptier	empty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 getting	xcomp
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	bro and the trunks						tree rules
2	get	gerund	bro and the trunks not said here					empty, right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 kept getting emptier and emptier cause the beast took all the gold

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	emptier	empty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 cause	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 emptier	cc
6	emptier	empty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 emptier	conj
7	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 getting	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beast	det
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cause	ccomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 gold	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	they		tree rules
2	get	gerund	they not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	cause	present	emptier		tree rules
4	take	past	the beast	all gold	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no they kept getting fuller innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 kept	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	fuller	full	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 innit	amod
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they						tree rules
2	get	gerund	they not said here	fuller innit					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer innit=Stimulus

Option 3

nah the trunks got heavier with gold every single time she checked them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trunks	det
3	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 got	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl:unmarked
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 checked	nsubj
12	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 checked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the trunks				time	with gold; heavy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	check	past	she	trunks = trunk					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

yeah they got emptier over time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	emptier	empty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 time	case
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they				time	empty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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