Test 5 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

Why'd the kids go to the woods on Midsummer, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, you · What happens: go, innit · To what, where: Midsummer

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Midsummer	case
10	Midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the kids			Midsummer		to the woods	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	innit	imperative	you 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

Because the children wanted to fetch the water from the stream before the holiday began

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 wanted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fetch	mark
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 holiday	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 holiday	det
14	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obl
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	want	past	the children				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the children not said here	the water	the stream	before the holiday	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from stream=Source
3	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To dance and play for the big holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 dance	mark
2	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 play	cc
4	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 dance	conj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 holiday	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 holiday	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 holiday	amod
8	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	to-infinitive							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	infinitive						for the big holiday	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for holiday=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To pick some flowers and berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pick	mark
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pick	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 berries	cc
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flowers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	to-infinitive		some flowers and berries					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

Option 4

To watch the villagers light the huge fire and sing the old songs together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 watch	mark
2	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villagers	det
4	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 light	nsubj
5	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fire	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sing	cc
10	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 songs	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 songs	amod
13	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sing	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	10 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	watch	to-infinitive	the villagers not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	light	present	the villagers	the huge fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	sing speech: express	present	the villagers not said here	the old songs	together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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