Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leave…

What did the sheep do to keep everyone happy, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: do, keep · To what, where: everyone

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1466 «Fairy Tales, The King of the Sheep, part 53: Miranda leaves the Sheep King to attend her sister's wedding and returns to him» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	advcl
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 keep	obj
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	7 keep	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the sheep			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	to-infinitive	the sheep not said here	everyone	happy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme

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

Balls, concerts and hunting parties, plus feasts every single night for the whole flock and the Princess

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 concerts	punct
3	concerts	concert	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 parties	cc
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parties	compound
6	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feasts	punct
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	9 feasts	cc
9	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feasts	nmod:unmarked
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 flock	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flock	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flock	amod
16	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Princess	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flock	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Balls, concerts and hunting parties, which the sheep attended in silence while the Princess watched from her chariot

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 attended	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 concerts	punct
3	concerts	concert	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 parties	cc
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parties	compound
6	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 attended	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 attended	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sheep	det
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 attended	nsubj
11	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 silence	case
13	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attended	obl
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 watched	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 watched	nsubj
17	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 attended	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 chariot	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 chariot	nmod:poss
20	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	past	Balls and concerts and hunting parties			silence			vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Goal
2	watch	past	the Princess			Princess's chariot			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Dances, games and music contests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 games	punct
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dances	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 contests	cc
5	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contests	compound
6	contests	contest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dances	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Balls, concerts and hunting parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 concerts	punct
3	concerts	concert	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 parties	cc
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parties	compound
6	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balls	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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