Test 13 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

What did the two of them do when the stork danced?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dance

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 danced	nsubj:pass
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 danced	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 two	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 danced	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 two	nmod
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 danced	aux
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 danced	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stork	det
10	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 danced	nsubj:pass
11	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 danced	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	past · passive · do-support							vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

They laughed a bit

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	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They	a bit					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They clapped and cheered the whole time, which was a mistake

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	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cheered	cc
4	cheered	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clapped	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mistake	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mistake	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mistake	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mistake	det
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	clap	past	They			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cheer	past	They not said here		time	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the whole time	a mistake		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They laughed till they couldn't stop, which was the big problem

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	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 stop	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 stop	advmod
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laughed	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 problem	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 problem	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 problem	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 problem	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 problem	amod
13	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh	past	They		tree rules
2	not stop	could	they		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	past		the big problem	tree rules

Option 4

They cried a lot

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	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	They	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

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