Test 3 · ★ · Contes, The Pied Piper of Hamel, part 49: Drakestail becom…

Bruv, why did the rats just jump in the river?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rats · What happens: do, jump · To what, where: river

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rats	det
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jump	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 jump	advmod
8	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jump	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	jump	present	the rats			the river			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory

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

Cos the bells rang out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 rang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 rang	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 rang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring out	past	the bells					loud, out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cos they were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 hungry	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the piper called them, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 piper	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 piper	det
3	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past		them = they				cos the piper	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the music made them, proper mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 music	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 music	det
3	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mad	punct
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	8 mad	advmod
8	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		them = they				cos the music; mad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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