Test 4 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11:…

wait, did he actually bail on the first night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, do, bail

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1622 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Christian the Smith, part 11: Christian guards the church, meets the dead princess, and bargains for a second night» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bail	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 bail	advmod
6	bail	bail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 night	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bail	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bail	present	he	night	actually property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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

nope, he stuck it out in the pulpit until the colonel found him at dawn

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pulpit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pulpit	det
9	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 colonel	det
12	colonel	colonel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 dawn	case
16	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	past	he	it		the pulpit			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pulpit=Destination
2	find	past	the colonel	him = he			dawn		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

Option 2

yep, he bailed early but came right back the next night anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 bailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bailed	nsubj
4	bailed	bail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bailed	advmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bailed	conj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 back	advmod
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	past	he					early property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	he not said here				night	anyway property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he stayed till morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	ADP	_	6 morning	case
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he				morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yep, he bolted at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 bolted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolted	nsubj
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bolted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past	he				midnight		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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