Test 9 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…

The kids followed him, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: follow · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 though	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	3 followed	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the kids	him = he					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

Yeah, most of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 most	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 most	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, every single one of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod

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

Option 3

Nah, only the babes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 babes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 babes	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 babes	det
5	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, just one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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