Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Why'd Burd Ellen go missing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Burd · What happens: go

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
4	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Burd	flat
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	Burd					missing property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She went round the church backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	She			the church		backwards property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial_Location

Option 2

She went round the well sideways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	She			the well		sideways property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round well=Initial_Location

Option 3

Fairies took her from the kirk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 kirk	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kirk	det
6	kirk	kirk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Fairies	her = she		the kirk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from kirk=Initial_Location

Option 4

She went round the church backwards three times at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl:unmarked
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 midnight	case
10	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	She			the church	midnight; time	backwards property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial_Location

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