Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is…

why'd the knights keep falling down?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knights · What happens: keep, fall down

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1703 «Fairy Tales, The Miller's Boy and the Nixy: the hunter is pulled under the pond, and his wife wins him back» 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 keep	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knights	det
4	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 falling	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the knights						tree rules
2	fall down	gerund	the knights not said here					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the slippery hill was too steep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hill	amod
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steep	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steep	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 steep	advmod
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the slippery hill					steep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the knights were tired and gave up at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knights	det
2	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tired	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the knights					tired property	tree rules
2	give up	past	the knights not said here			the gate			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the horses had no proper shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 shoes	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoes	amod
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the horses	no proper shoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 4

they were lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lazy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lazy	cop
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					lazy property	tree rules

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