Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…

So the couple kept the wand, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple · What happens: keep · To what, where: wand

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wand	det
6	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the couple	the wand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=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

Yeah, so the dwarf could never come back across the river to bother them again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bother	mark
14	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bother	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 bother	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	could	the dwarf			the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across river=Initial_Location
2	bother	to-infinitive	the dwarf not said here	them = they			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, so the dwarf stayed stuck there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stayed	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stayed	nsubj
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	stuck	stuck	ADV	_	6 stayed	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the dwarf			there		stuck property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, so the dwarf could never come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	could	the dwarf						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they kept the wand but the dwarf came back later to get his beard and wand

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wand	det
6	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dwarf	det
9	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 came	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wand	cc
18	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	the wand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
2	come back	past	the dwarf		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	the dwarf not said here	dwarf's beard and wand		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beard=Stimulus

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