Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…

How many of them ended up chasing Dullhead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many · What happens: end up, chase · To what, where: Dullhead

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ended	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 many	nmod
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 ended	compound:prt
7	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ended	xcomp
8	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past	many of them						tree rules
2	chase	gerund	many of them not said here	Dullhead					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dullhead=Theme

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

Seven of them, all of them in one big long line behind him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Seven	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 line	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 line	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 line	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 line	nummod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 line	amod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 line	amod
12	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seven	appos
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 line	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven, all of them in a long line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 all	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 line	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 line	amod
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 all	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

All seven of them, every single one, in a messy long line across the field

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 seven	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seven	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 one	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 line	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 line	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 line	det
12	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 line	amod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 line	amod
14	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	appos
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 field	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 field	det
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 line	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Seven of them, running in a row

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Seven	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 running	punct
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Seven	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 row	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund				a row			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in row=Trajectory

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