Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

did the master hear what started the row, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: master · What happens: hear, start, innit · To what, where: row · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	the master		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	start	past		the row	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Eventuality
3	innit	infinitive	the master 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

no, he spoke to empty air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 spoke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	he					to empty air	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to air=Co-Agent

Option 2

no, they were all too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loud	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					all, loud property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

no, none of them could hear him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 hear	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 none	nmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	none	him = he					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

no, not one of them heard him at all that whole day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 heard	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 day	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 day	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	one of them	him = he			day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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