Test 11 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

when they got to Farmer's house what was outside the door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: get, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 house	case
5	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Farmer	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 door	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 door	cop
10	outside	outside	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	they					to Farmer's house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2	is	past						outside the door	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

a great many dead bodies lying in heaps, the eagle said not to worry and to keep walking

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bodies	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bodies	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 heaps	case
8	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lying	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eagle	det
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heaps	acl:relcl
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 worry	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 worry	mark
15	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 worry	conj
19	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lie	gerund	a great many dead bodies not said here		heaps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the eagle	heaps not said here		tree rules
3	not worry	to-infinitive	the eagle not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	keep	to-infinitive	the eagle not said here			tree rules
5	walk	gerund	the eagle not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a great many dead bodies, the eagle said not to worry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bodies	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bodies	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eagle	det
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 worry	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 worry	mark
12	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a great many dead bodies						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not worry	to-infinitive	a great many dead bodies not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

a row of tall barrels, the dog snoring loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 row	det
2	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 barrels	case
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 barrels	amod
5	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 row	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dog	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 row	conj
9	snoring	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 dog	acl
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 snoring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	gerund	the dog not said here					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a great many dead bodies, and the eagle said not to worry about them at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bodies	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bodies	amod
5	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eagle	det
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bodies	conj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 worry	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 worry	mark
13	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	xcomp
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worry	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 worry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eagle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not worry	to-infinitive	the eagle not said here			all		about bodies = body	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about they=Stimulus

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