Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

So did the old man, like, come back from the wars?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, come back · To what, where: old man, wars

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 come	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 wars	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wars	det
13	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	come back	infinitive				the wars			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from war=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

he came back home but was lost on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 lost	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux:pass
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	he					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past · passive	he not said here			the road			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he never came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he went to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 sea	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he came back years later to see the lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 later	obl:unmarked
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 came	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	he					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	the lady					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus

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