Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

yo, so did the dwarfs actually let him dance again or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: him · What happens: let, dance · To what, where: him

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 dance	advmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 dance	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support		him = he				actually property	tree rules
2	dance	infinitive	him = he not said here				again		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice

yep, they let him dance once more, but only if he kept the secret

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 dance	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 kept	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 kept	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 secret	det
16	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	present	they	him = he	tree rules
2	dance	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	he	the secret	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep, they let him dance once more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dance	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 dance	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	they	him = he					tree rules
2	dance	infinitive	him = he not said here					once property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yep, they let him dance once more before the moon set

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 dance	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	12 set	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 set	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	compound
12	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	they	him = he					tree rules
2	dance	infinitive	him = he not said here			the moon set			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before set=Location

Option 4

nope, they refused him outright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 refused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	obj
6	outright	outright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 refused	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	they	him = he				outright property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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