Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince fre…

Okay but who were those two soldiers, like were they, like, bad guys from the start?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: two soldiers

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 694 «Fairy Tales, The Gold-Bearded Man, part 34: the prince frees a prisoner, meets three grateful creatures, and is set a grain-sorting task» 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	Okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 soldiers	cc
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 soldiers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 soldiers	cop
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 soldiers	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 soldiers	nummod
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Okay	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 they	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 they	case
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 they	cop
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Okay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guys	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 guys	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guys	amod
16	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 they	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 start	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 start	det
19	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guys	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that two soldiers					tree rules
2	is	past						like soldiers = soldier	tree rules

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 were hired by the king

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	3 hired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hired	aux:pass
3	hired	hire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hired	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hire	past · passive	the king	They					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

They were his cousins

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	4 cousins	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cousins	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cousins	nmod:poss
4	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his cousins					tree rules

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

They were jealous and plotted against the prince

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	3 jealous	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 plotted	cc
5	plotted	plot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 jealous	conj
6	against	against	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					jealous property	tree rules
2	plot	participle	They not said here					against the prince	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were friends who turned on him later

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	3 friends	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 friends	cop
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 friends	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	obl
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	friends					tree rules
2	turn	past	friends					on him = he; late property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory

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