Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

Mate, the fishermen, what did they reckon was off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fishermen · What happens: reckon off · To what, where: fishermen

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fishermen	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fishermen	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishermen	det
4	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reckon	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 reckon	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reckon	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reckon	nsubj
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fishermen	acl:relcl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 off	cop
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 reckon	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fishermen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon off	past · do-support	fishermen = fisherman	the fishermen					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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

Something in the song was missing, and they could not say what, though they had listened all night

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 missing	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 song	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missing	cop
6	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 say	advmod
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 missing	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 listened	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 listened	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 listened	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 listened	aux
18	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 say	ccomp
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 listened	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Something		missing property	tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	could	they			tree rules
3	listen	past · perfect	they	night		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Something in the song was missing, so the fishermen rowed back to shore at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 missing	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 song	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missing	cop
6	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rowed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 rowed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fishermen	det
10	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rowed	nsubj
11	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missing	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 rowed	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 shore	case
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rowed	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 rowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Something					missing property	tree rules
2	row back	past	the fishermen			shore			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory

Option 3

Something in the tune was lacking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 lacking	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 tune	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tune	det
4	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lacking	aux
6	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	past · progressive	Something						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Something in the song was missing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 missing	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 song	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Something	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 missing	cop
6	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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