Test 7 · ★ · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

Wait, did the demons fight back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, demons · What happens: wait, fight back

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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	_	6 fight	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fight	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 demons	det
5	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fight	nsubj
6	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 fight	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight back	past · do-support	the demons						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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

Nah, they laughed and stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stayed	cc
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	they not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they howled and ran away into the dark wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 howled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 howled	nsubj
4	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 howled	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run away	past	they not said here					into the dark wood result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they howled and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 howled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 howled	nsubj
4	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 howled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	past	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	they not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, they fought back hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fought	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 fought	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight back	past	they					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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