Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begin…

did the dad even try to stop it or nah

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: try, stop · To what, where: it

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1558 «Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begins: the Cricket and the Grasshopper reach the Golden Branch and are freed, and a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 try	advmod
5	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 stop	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 try	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past · do-support							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive		it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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

yeah, he fought the stepmom hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmom	det
6	stepmom	stepmom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fought	obj
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	he	the stepmom				hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepmom=Co-Agent

Option 2

nah, he's useless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 useless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useless	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	cop
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					useless property	tree rules

Option 3

nah he's just sitting there lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sitting	advmod
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sitting	advmod
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 sitting	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	he			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he's just an NPC, didn't say much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 NPC	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 NPC	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 NPC	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 NPC	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 NPC	det
7	NPC	NPC	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 NPC	punct
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	much	much	ADV	_	11 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a NPC					tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	a NPC						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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