Test 9 · ★ · Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won b…

Did the Scots get the castle back, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Scots · What happens: get back · To what, where: castle

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 345 «Book of Tales (pg18442), The Black Douglas: a castle won back at dusk» 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 Scots	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Scots	det
3	Scots	Scot	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 get	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	present	the Scots	the castle					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus

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

Nah, the English kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 English	det
4	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the English	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

Yeah, they took it back proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	they	it				properly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they got it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, they stormed the walls and held it for the rest of the war

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stormed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stormed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stormed	nsubj
4	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stormed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 held	cc
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stormed	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 held	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 rest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 war	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 war	det
15	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm	past	they	the walls					tree rules
2	hold	past	they not said here	it				for the rest of the war	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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