Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…

did the youngest brother ever ditch his mission like the others?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ditch · To what, where: mission

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1635 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest prince pays a murderous host, escapes, and meets the fox again» 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	6 ditch	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 ditch	advmod
6	ditch	ditch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mission	nmod:poss
8	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ditch	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 others	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ditch	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ditch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past · do-support		his mission			ever	like the others	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

nope, he kept going the whole time, even when the fox tried to trick him into quitting halfway through

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 tried	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 tried	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 trick	mark
16	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trick	obj
18	into	into	SCONJ	_	19 quitting	mark
19	quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 trick	advcl
20	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	19 quitting	advmod
21	through	through	ADV	_	19 quitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he				tree rules
2	go	gerund	he not said here		time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	the fox				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	fox			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	quit	gerund	the fox not said here			halfway, through property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, he kept going, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mostly	punct
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 going	advmod

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

Option 3

yep, he quit too, kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 quit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quit	nsubj
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 quit	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 quit	punct
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 quit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	past	he					kinda property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yep, he ditched it at first too but then came back and finished, so he's kinda the hero tbh

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ditched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ditched	nsubj
4	ditched	ditch	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 ditched	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 first	case
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 ditched	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 first	advmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ditched	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 finished	cc
14	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hero	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 hero	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hero	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hero	cop
19	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	21 hero	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hero	det
21	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ditched	parataxis
22	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	21 hero	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	past	he	it		first property	tree rules
2	come back	past	he not said here		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	finish	past	he not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	present	he	the hero		kinda, tbh property	tree rules

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