Test 10 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Lol, so the twins kept running into each other at the crossway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: twins · What happens: keep, run · To what, where: each

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 twins	det
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 each	case
9	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 running	obl
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 each	fixed
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 crossway	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crossway	det
13	crossway	crossway	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the twins						tree rules
2	run	gerund	the twins not said here					into each result; at the crossway	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into each=Result

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

Nah, they met once and never again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 met	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 never	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 once	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 met	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	they				again	once property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yep, three times, they just couldn't shake it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	10 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yep	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shake	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 shake	advmod
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shake	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 shake	advmod
10	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not shake	could	they	it					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yep, twice, they just could not stop it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	9 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Yep	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 stop	advmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	they	it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yep, three times, and they just couldn't shake it off, the crossway kept pulling them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	11 shake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yep	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shake	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shake	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 shake	advmod
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 shake	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 shake	advmod
11	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 kept	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shake	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 shake	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crossway	det
16	crossway	crossway	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	nsubj
17	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 kept	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not shake off	could	they	it	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	keep	past	the crossway		tree rules
3	pull	gerund	the crossway not said here	them = they	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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