Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…
did the men leave the house straight away, mate?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: men · What happens: leave · To what, where: house
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 men | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | vocative |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | the men | the house | mate vocative; away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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 · ✓ the right answer
no, they drew their pay but stayed on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 drew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 stayed | cc |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 stayed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | they | their pay | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay on | past | they not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | their = they | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
no, they drew their pay, went to the pond, but still stayed on at the house
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 drew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pond | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pond | det |
| 11 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stayed | cc |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 stayed | advmod |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stayed | compound:prt |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | they | their pay | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | they not said here | the pond | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stay on | past | they not said here | the house | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | |||
| 4 | pay | their = they | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
no, they took their pay and stayed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | 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 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stayed | cc |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | they | their pay | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | they not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay | their = they | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
no, they drew their pay and left the house that very night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 drew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 night | nsubj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 night | advmod |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | they | their pay | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | they not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | night | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pay | their = they | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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