Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Shepherd Prince, part 14: the prince beats…
Did the horsemen tail him the whole time?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: horsemen tail
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 674 «Fairy Book, The Shepherd Prince, part 14: the prince beats the dragon, and the princess's kiss ends the fight» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 3 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tail | compound |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tail | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the horsemen tail him | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality |
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, they went home early and gave up on him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 gave | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | early, home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | they not said here | on him = he | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they followed him along the road and waited
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 followed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 waited | cc |
| 10 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | they | him = he | the road | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wait | past | they not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they hid up the steep hill and watched him all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hid | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 7 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hill | amod |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watched | cc |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watched | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide up | past | they | the steep hill | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | they not said here | him = he | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, they hid up the steep hill above the lake and watched him fight the dragon all day long, without moving once
The tree, 22 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hid | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 7 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hill | amod |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obj |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hill | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watched | cc |
| 13 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 watched | obj |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 watched | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 fight | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moving | punct |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 moving | mark |
| 23 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 watched | advcl |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 moving | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide up | past | they | the steep hill | the lake | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hill=Patient above lake=Location | |||
| 2 | watch | past | they not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | him = he not said here | the dragon | day | long property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | move | gerund | they not said here | once property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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