Test 12 · ★ · Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: t…

Was the Thief still with the princes at the end, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Thief

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1518 «Hibernian Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of Glen: the Thief's last tale saves the youngest prince» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Thief	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Thief	det
3	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 Thief	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 princes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princes	det
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Thief	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 princes	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Thief			still	with the princes at the end	tree rules

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

no, he stayed behind at the glen with the Knight after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	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	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 glen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glen	det
8	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Knight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Knight	det
11	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 glen	nmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			the glen with the Knight	after all	behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at glen=Location

Option 2

yeah, he stayed on with them at the palace all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	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	on	on	ADP	_	4 stayed	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 along	advmod
12	along	along	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay on	past	he			the palace		with them = they; along property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he stayed with them

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	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					with them = they	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location

Option 4

yeah, he went with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					with them = they	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary

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