Test 3 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon s…

Did the kids go out for the may, or did they just stay in the town?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: go out, do, stay · To what, where: town

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 654 «The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon, part 22: a dragon scares the town and the Prince sets out to hunt it» 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 kids	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 may	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 may	det
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 did	cc
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stay	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 stay	advmod
14	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 did	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 town	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 town	det
17	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stay	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go out	present	the kids		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past				tree rules
3	stay	present	kids = kid	the town		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=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

They went to the river, very late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 late	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 late	advmod
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They went out to the wood, proper early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 early	punct
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 early	advmod
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	They					to the wood; early, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They ran to the fields, dead early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 fields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fields	det
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ran	conj
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They					to the fields result; early property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to field=Result

Option 4

They stayed in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	They			town			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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