Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle…

so did the little men actually do the church thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little men · What happens: do · To what, where: church thing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1955 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Castle: the castle is found and carried away over the sea» 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	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the little men	the church thing				actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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, two of them did the singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 two	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obl
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 singing	det
8	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		two				of them = they	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singing=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they just sat there quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they			there		quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, one was the priest, one the clerk, and one the singer

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 priest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 priest	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 priest	nummod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clerk	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 clerk	nummod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clerk	det
10	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 priest	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 singer	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 singer	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 singer	nummod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 singer	det
15	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 priest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the one priest and the one clerk and the one singer					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, one was the priest, one the clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 priest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 priest	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 priest	nummod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 priest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 priest	appos
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clerk	det
10	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the one priest					tree rules

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