Test 7 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Did Tom's kids survive all that bad luck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: do, survive · To what, where: bad luck

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kids	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tom	case
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 survive	nsubj
5	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	ccomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 luck	det:predet
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 luck	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 luck	amod
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 survive	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	survive	present	Tom's kids	all bad luck					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme luck=Circumstance

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

no, the kids all died of fever that winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fever	case
8	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fever	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the kids					of fever; all property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of fever=Causer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

no, the kids died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the kids						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

yes, the kids lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the kids						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

no, the kids all died in the terrible winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 winter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winter	det
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winter	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the kids				winter	all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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