Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Why'd the sisters suddenly get wooers, like?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 like	advcl
7	wooers	wooer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the sisters	wooers				suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wooer=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

They learned to sing

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 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sing	mark
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	They						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They stopped insulting the sun

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 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insulting	insult	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insulting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	insult	gerund	They not said here	the sun					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sun=Experiencer

Option 3

They got really rich

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The prince asked them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 asked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask out speech: ask	past	the prince		them = they				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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