Test 10 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

Is the imp gone for good, or is he coming back for the girl?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: imp · What happens: be, go, come back · To what, where: imp

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 imp	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 imp	det
3	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 coming	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 coming	nsubj
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 coming	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 girl	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the imp		tree rules
2	go	participle	the imp		for good	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary
3	come back	present · progressive	imp		for the girl	vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Yeah, he's back, she saw him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 back	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 back	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 back	cop
5	back	back	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					back property	tree rules
2	see	past	she	him = he			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gone for good, she never saw him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 good	case
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gone	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 saw	advmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gone	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	she	him = he			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Gone for good, she never saw him again after that night in the cottage when he flew off into the dark

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 good	case
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gone	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 saw	advmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gone	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cottage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cottage	det
15	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 night	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 flew	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 flew	compound:prt
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 dark	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dark	det
22	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	she	him = he			again; night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	fly off	past	he					into the dark result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dark=Result

Option 4

Nah, he's coming back, mate, for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 coming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 coming	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 coming	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	vocative
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 sure	case
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present · progressive	he					for sure; mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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