Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

So the villagers with rakes and brooms are trying to get the moon out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: villagers · What happens: try, get out · To what, where: moon

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 trying	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 villagers	det
3	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trying	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 rakes	case
5	rakes	rake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 villagers	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brooms	cc
7	brooms	broom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rakes	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	aux
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moon	det
13	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	11 get	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 trying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	the villagers with rakes and brooms						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the villagers with rakes and brooms not said here	the moon					tree rules

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

Yeah, they thought it had sunk, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sunk	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sunk	aux
7	sunk	sink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 proper	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sink	past · perfect · passive		it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Nah, just sweeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sweeping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sweeping	advmod
4	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they thought it had fallen in, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fallen	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fallen	aux
7	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 fallen	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	fall in	past · perfect	it						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, they're cleaning the pond, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cleaning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cleaning	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cleaning	aux
5	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pond	det
7	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaning	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaning	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present · progressive	they	the pond					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pond=Patient

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