Test 11 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Ay, did the people laugh at the piper, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, laugh · To what, where: piper

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1552 «Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becomes king, and the piper clears Hamel of rats, then the children vanish» 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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ay	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laugh	nsubj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 piper	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 piper	det
9	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laugh	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 though	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	6 laugh	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	laugh	present	the people			the piper			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they laughed, thinking he was done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughed	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux:pass
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thinking	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh	past	they		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund	they not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	past · passive		he	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, they mocked him loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 mocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mocked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mocked	nsubj
4	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mocked	obj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 mocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	they	him = he				loudly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they feared him then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 feared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feared	obj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 feared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	they	him = he			then		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, they laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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