Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes…

the North Wind lads were just chilling in the moon, bro

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind lads · What happens: chill · To what, where: moon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2084 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 43: Jason takes the Golden Fleece with Medea's magic and sails away» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lads	compound
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chilling	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chilling	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 chilling	advmod
7	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chilling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	the Wind lads			the moon and bro			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

nah, they were just sitting there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

nah, they were actually fighting the dragon in the grove and got knocked out by its fire

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fighting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fighting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fighting	aux
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 fighting	advmod
6	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dragon	det
8	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighting	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 grove	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grove	det
11	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighting	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 knocked	cc
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 knocked	aux:pass
14	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fighting	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 knocked	compound:prt
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fire	nmod:poss
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	they	the dragon	the grove	actually property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent
2	knock out	past · passive	grove's fire				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	fire		grove				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

yeah, they were hanging out in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hanging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hanging	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hanging	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hanging	aux
5	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 hanging	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sky	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang out	past · progressive	they			the sky			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they were flying about having a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 flying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flying	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flying	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flying	aux
5	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 flying	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 laugh	det
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · progressive	they						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	gerund	they not said here	a laugh					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Patient

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