Test 7 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

Did the eldest bro turn round and look back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest bro · What happens: turn round, look back

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	4 bro	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turn	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	present	the eldest bro					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	look back	infinitive	the eldest bro not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

he kept on walking up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 walking	mark
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 walking	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	walk up	gerund	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

no, he kept walking and never looked behind him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	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	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 looked	advmod
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			tree rules
2	walk	gerund	he not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not look	past	he not said here	all	behind him = he	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme

Option 3

yes, he looked at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he stooped to grab a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stooped	nsubj
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 grab	mark
4	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stooped	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop	past	he						tree rules
2	grab	to-infinitive	he not said here	a stone					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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