Test 2 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils…

Wait, why did the servants come back all dusty and wiped out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, servants · What happens: wait, come back, wipe out

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1563 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils the gate, pleases the helpers, and reaches a thirsty sandy plain» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 come	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servants	det
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 dusty	advmod
10	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wiped	cc
12	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 dusty	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 wiped	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past · do-support	the servants	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wipe out	participle	the servants not said here	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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

They gave up at the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	They			the river			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They gave up and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	They						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	They not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They went the wrong way and never caught him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 caught	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 caught	advmod
8	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	They	the wrong way					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	not catch	past	They not said here	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

They chased the wrong horse all the way to the sea and never came back

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chased	nsubj
2	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horse	amod
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chased	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chased	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	They	the wrong horse		the sea		all way obl:unmarked	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to sea=Trajectory
2	not come back	past	They not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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