Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…

lol and the prince just kept playing the flute while everything kicked off, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: keep, play, kick off · To what, where: flute, everything

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 kept	discourse
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flute	det
9	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 kicked	mark
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 kicked	nsubj:pass
12	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 playing	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 kicked	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	6 kept	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the prince		tree rules
2	play	gerund	the prince not said here	the flute	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
3	kick off	participle · passive		everything	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, while the swords were flashing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 flashing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 flashing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swords	det
5	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flashing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flashing	aux
7	flashing	flash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	past · progressive	the swords						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, he stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nope, he dropped it when the fight began

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	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 dropped	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 began	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fight	det
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	begin	past	the fight						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

yep, while the drums were booming away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 booming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 booming	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drums	det
5	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 booming	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 booming	aux
7	booming	boom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 booming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boom away	past · progressive	the drums					away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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