Test 4 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

did the dude actually stay in the barn though?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, stay · To what, where: dude, barn

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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 dude	det
3	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 barn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barn	det
8	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
9	though	though	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dude					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality
2	stay	present				the barn		actually, though property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in barn=Location

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

yeah, he lay down and kept it real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kept	cc
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kept	obj
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	he					down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	he not said here	it				real property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

yeah, he stayed the whole night, lay down and kept it real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stayed	advcl
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 lay	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kept	cc
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kept	obj
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he		night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down	infinitive	he not said here			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	he not said here	it		real property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he lay down in the barn and kept it real, no cap

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 barn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barn	det
8	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kept	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	he			the barn		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barn=Location
2	keep	past	he not said here	barn				real property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he sat by the door all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he				night	by the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location

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