Test 9 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderla…

Mum and dad were well upset, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1581 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: Cinderlad sets out to watch the seven foals and meets the old hag» 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 upset	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dad	cc
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 upset	advmod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 upset	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	6 upset	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 upset	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mum and dad					upset, well property	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

Nah, they just let him go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	they	him = he					tree rules
2	go away	infinitive	him = he not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, they told him to stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they begged him not to go and even locked the door on him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 locked	cc
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 locked	advmod
11	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 locked	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they		him = he		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lock	past	they not said here	the door		on him = he	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient on he=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they begged him not to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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