Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

Did they bag the money, then, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: do, bag · To what, where: money

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them back» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bag	nsubj
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 what	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the money					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
2	bag		they						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 fought over it and fled home to their wives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fought	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fled	cc
8	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 fled	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wives	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wives	nmod:poss
12	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they					over it	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme
2	flee	past	they not said here					to their wives; home property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location

Option 2

yeah, they bagged every groat and ran off to the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bagged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bagged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bagged	nsubj
4	bagged	bag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 groat	det
6	groat	groat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bagged	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bagged	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 hill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bag	past	they	every groat					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent groat=Theme
2	run off	past	they not said here					to the hill result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, took as much as they could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 took	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past		much					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

Option 4

yeah, they took the bags and then gave them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bags	det
6	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 gave	advmod
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	they	the bags					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	give back	past	they not said here		bags = bag		then		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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