Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors…

and what did they do at that crystal spring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2063 «Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace, part 22: hungry sailors follow the smell of roast meat up to the palace» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 spring	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 spring	det
8	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spring	amod
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 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	they				spring		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Had a drink, then laughed at their wobbly faces, and one of them fell into the spring

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Had	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 faces	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faces	nmod:poss
9	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 faces	amod
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laughed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 fell	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Had	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 spring	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spring	det
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past		a drink			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	laugh	past			their wobbly faces	then	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	one of faces			spring	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Had a drink, then laughed at their wobbly faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Had	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 faces	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faces	nmod:poss
9	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 faces	amod
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a drink					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	laugh	past				their wobbly faces	then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Had a drink, then laughed at their wobbly faces until the sun went down behind the trees

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Had	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 faces	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faces	nmod:poss
9	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 faces	amod
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laughed	obl
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	advcl
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a drink				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	laugh	past			their wobbly faces	then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	the sun		the trees		down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind tree=Location

Option 4

Filled their casks, then argued about the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 casks	nmod:poss
3	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Filled	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 argued	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 argued	advmod
6	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Filled	parataxis
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past		their casks					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cask=Patient
2	argue speech: disagree	past					then	about the road	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about road=Topic

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