Test 7 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

Bro, what was the Swallow's bff thing with the Reed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: bff thing

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Swallow	det
6	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Swallow	case
8	bff	bff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 Reed	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Reed	det
12	Reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro	the Swallow's bff thing				with the Reed	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

She refused to fly off to Egypt with him and kept swaying by the pond all winter long

The tree, 18 words

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fly	mark
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 fly	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Egypt	case
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
12	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 kept	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 pond	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pond	det
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swaying	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 winter	det
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refused	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 refused	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	She		winter	long property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not fly off	to-infinitive	She not said here	Egypt		with Egypt	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to egypt=Result
3	keep	past	She not said here				tree rules
4	sway	gerund	She not said here			by the pond	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pond=Location

Option 2

She just wanted to stay near the river

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	3 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here			the river			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near river=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She stayed home and wouldn't go to Egypt

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 go	cc
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stayed	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Egypt	case
9	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not go	would	She not said here			Egypt			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location

Option 4

She stayed home by the river and wouldn't go with him to Egypt at all

The tree, 16 words

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 stayed	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stayed	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Egypt	case
14	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She					by the river; home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Location
2	not go	would	She not said here		Egypt	all		with him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location

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