Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…

bruh, did the master catch them before they got away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master, they · What happens: catch, get away · To what, where: them

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	advcl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support	the master	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	get away	past	they					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

nope, the house was empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 empty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 empty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

yes, he caught the prince but the maiden escaped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 escaped	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escaped	nsubj
10	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	he	the prince					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
2	escape	past	the maiden						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nope, the master searched the whole forest and found only peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 searched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 searched	nsubj
5	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forest	amod
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 searched	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 found	cc
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 searched	conj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 peas	advmod
12	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	the master	the whole forest					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Location
2	find	past	the master not said here	peas					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Topic

Option 4

yes, he caught them both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	obj
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	he	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary both=Theme

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