Test 6 · ★ · The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dan…

Did the Dogs come belting back to the field, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dogs · What happens: come, belt back

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 362 «The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dances for a wolf is saved by the Shepherd Dogs» 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 come	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dogs	det
3	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	belting	belt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 come	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 belting	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 come	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	the Dogs						tree rules
2	belt back	gerund	the Dogs not said here					to the field	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to field=Co-Patient

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 belted back to the field as fast as their legs could carry them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 belted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 belted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 belted	nsubj
4	belted	belt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 belted	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belted	obl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 belted	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 carry	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 legs	nmod:poss
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carry	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carry	aux
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fast	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belt back	past	they					to the field; fast property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to field=Co-Patient
2	carry	could	their legs	them = they					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they wandered off a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 wandered	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander off	past	they	a bit					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they legged it straight back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 legged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 legged	nsubj
4	legged	leg	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 legged	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 back	advmod
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 legged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	they	it					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they trotted off slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 trotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 trotted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trotted	nsubj
4	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 trotted	compound:prt
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 trotted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot off	past	they					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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