Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…
Mate, did the bears ever see her again, like ever?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, bears · What happens: do, see · To what, where: Mate
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bears | det |
| 5 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ever | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 see | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | the bears | Mate | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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
no, they never saw her again, though they looked for years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 looked | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | they | her = she | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | past | they | year | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
no, saw her in town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | her = she | town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
no, never saw her again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 saw | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | her = she | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 4
no, they never saw her again in the forest or the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 town | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | they | her = she | the forest or the town | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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