Test 1 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

Yo, did the chief just walk through the trees like they were nothing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trees · What happens: do, walk, be · To what, where: chief, trees

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chief	det
5	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 walk	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 nothing	case
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nothing	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nothing	cop
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 trees	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past		the chief			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Eventuality
2	walk	present			the trees		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory
3	is	past	trees = tree			like nothing	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

Yeah mate, they were real trees, proper solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 mate	discourse
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trees	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trees	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trees	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mate	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 solid	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 solid	amod
10	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	real trees					tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Yeah mate, they were only their souls, proper spooky, and the chief just strolled right on through them all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 mate	discourse
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 souls	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 souls	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 souls	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 souls	advmod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 souls	nmod:poss
8	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mate	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spooky	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spooky	amod
11	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 souls	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strolled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strolled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chief	det
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strolled	nsubj:pass
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 strolled	advmod
17	strolled	stroll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 spooky	conj
18	right	right	ADV	_	19 on	advmod
19	on	on	ADV	_	17 strolled	advmod
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 strolled	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	their souls					tree rules
2	stroll	participle · passive		the chief				through souls = soul	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

Option 3

Nah bro, they were stones and rocks, proper solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	2 bro	discourse
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stones	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stones	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stones	cop
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bro	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rocks	cc
8	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stones	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 solid	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 solid	amod
11	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bro	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	stones and rocks					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah mate, they were only their souls, proper spooky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 mate	discourse
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 souls	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 souls	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 souls	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 souls	advmod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 souls	nmod:poss
8	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mate	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spooky	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spooky	amod
11	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mate	mate's souls					tree rules

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