Test 6 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…
So the rats just drowned, straight up?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rats · What happens: drown, straight up
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | _ | 5 drowned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rats | det |
| 3 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 drowned | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 drowned | advmod |
| 5 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 straight | punct |
| 7 | straight | straight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drowned | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 straight | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 drowned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | the rats | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | straight up | infinitive | the rats not said here | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they all went under
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, they all went under in the harbour water, straight down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 9 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 water | compound |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 down | punct |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 down | advmod |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | the harbour water | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location |
Option 3
Nah, they all swam away out to sea, mate, every one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 swam | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swam | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 swam | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swam | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sea | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sea | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim away | past | they | sea and mate | away, out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they all went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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