Test 2 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…

So the rats were all over the place, yeah?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 place	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rats	det
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 place	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 place	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 place	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rats			the place		all property	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

Nah, they were only in the cellars, mate, not everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 cellars	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cellars	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cellars	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 cellars	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cellars	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellars	det
8	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cellars	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 everywhere	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 everywhere	advmod
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 cellars	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			the cellars and mate		everywhere property	tree rules

Option 2

Dead right, they were everywhere in the town and the harbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 right	advmod
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 town	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 town	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 town	cop
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 town	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 harbour	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harbour	det
12	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 town	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			the right town and the harbour		everywhere property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dead right, they were everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 right	advmod
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 everywhere	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 everywhere	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 everywhere	cop
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 right	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					everywhere property	tree rules

Option 4

Dead right, all in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 right	advmod
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hall	punct
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 hall	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 right	conj

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

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