Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flu…

Did the fiddler's mates get dragged in or were they chilling?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mates · What happens: drag in, chill · To what, where: mates

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1939 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Three Musicians, part 76: the flute-player seizes the dwarf's beard and is led over a river into a golden land» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dragged	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fiddler	det
3	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mates	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fiddler	case
5	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dragged	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dragged	aux:pass
7	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 dragged	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 chilling	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 chilling	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chilling	nsubj
12	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 dragged	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dragged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag in	past · passive · do-support		the fiddler's mates					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	chill	past · progressive	mates = mate						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 were stuck in the stream outside

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	3 stuck	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stuck	cop
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stream	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 stream	advmod

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

Option 2

They got dragged in

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	3 dragged	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dragged	aux:pass
3	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag in	past · passive		They					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

They were out in the fields working

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	3 out	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 out	cop
3	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 out	obl
7	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 out	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They			the fields		out property	tree rules
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They were chilling in bed asleep

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	3 chilling	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chilling	aux
3	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chilling	obl
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chilling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	They			bed		asleep property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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