Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Did the two oldest brothers come back?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two oldest brothers · What happens: come back

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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	6 come	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
4	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 brothers	amod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · do-support	the two oldest brothers						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

Aye, they did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Naw, they never came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Naw, they got lost first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lost	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux:pass
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 lost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		Naw				first property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

Naw, no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	naw	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Naw	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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