Test 9 · ★ · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

Be real, did the blind guys agree on the elephant?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blind guys · What happens: be, agree

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 agree	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 agree	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guys	det
6	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guys	amod
7	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 agree	nsubj
8	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 elephant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elephant	det
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 agree	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						real property	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	past · do-support	the blind guys					on the elephant	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on elephant=Topic

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

Nope, they kept arguing loudly until the sun went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 arguing	advmod
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they		tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	they not said here	loudly property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go down	past	the sun	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, they argued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, they argued the whole day long about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argued	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 argued	advmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they				day	about it; long property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

Yup, they agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Yup						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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