Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

Did they just go round the lawn or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: go · To what, where: lawn

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 lawn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lawn	det
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 lawn	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	they			the lawn			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round lawn=Initial_Location

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

Yeah, they flew over the whole country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	8 country	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	they			the whole country			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but they saw the whole country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	they	the whole country					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, but they saw the whole country from the top of the hill in the wind

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 saw	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 wind	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wind	det
17	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	they	the whole country		the top of the hill		in the wind	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, they flew all the way over the sea and across the whole country and back again

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 country	cc
12	across	across	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sea	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 back	cc
17	back	back	ADV	_	4 flew	conj
18	again	again	ADV	_	4 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	they	all way		the sea and the whole country	again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent way=Theme over sea=Location

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