Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Did the soldiers stop volunteering or keep queuing up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldiers · What happens: stop, volunteer, keep, queue up

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soldiers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldiers	det
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	volunteering	volunteer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	conj
8	queuing	queue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 queuing	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	present	the soldiers	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	volunteer	gerund	the soldiers not said here	vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	the soldiers not said here	tree rules
4	queue up	gerund	the soldiers not said here	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

They kept coming, and were brave

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brave	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brave	cc
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brave	cop
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They		tree rules
2	come	gerund	They not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	They not said here	brave property	tree rules

Option 2

They quit, and nobody came back

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 quit	nsubj
2	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 quit	ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	present	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	come back	past	nobody						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They stopped, and only reckless fellows came, which the king found sad

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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 fellows	advmod
6	reckless	reckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellows	amod
7	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 found	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 found	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	come	past	reckless fellows		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	the king	sad property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They stopped, and only reckless fellows came

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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 fellows	advmod
6	reckless	reckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellows	amod
7	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	come	past	reckless fellows						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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