Test 14 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the childre…
Innit sad, why did the king's men keep vanishing?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: men · What happens: keep, vanish
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 698 «Violet Fairy Book, Sigurd and Lineik, part 38: the children flee to the grove, and the prince is deceived» 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Innit | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 keep | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Innit | conj |
| 11 | vanishing | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | the king's men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | vanish | gerund | the king's men not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
the king's men were taken by a witch from the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 witch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 north | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 north | det |
| 12 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | a witch | the king's men | the north | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from north=Initial_Location |
Option 2
they were sent off on secret errands by the queen
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 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 errands | case |
| 6 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 errands | amod |
| 7 | errands | errand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | past · passive | the queen | they | secret errands | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
no reason was ever given
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 reason | det |
| 2 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 given | advmod |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | no reason | ever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
the queen was blamed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blamed | aux:pass |
| 4 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | past · passive | the queen | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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