Test 9 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

did the pigs and sheep actually run off or nah

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pigs · What happens: run off

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 703 «Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigs	det
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sheep	cc
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pigs	conj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 run	advmod
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 run	compound:prt
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 run	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past · do-support	the pigs and sheep					actually property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 right answer

nah, the kid herded them away on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 herded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 herded	nsubj
5	herded	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 herded	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 herded	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 herded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd away	past	the kid	them = they		purpose		away property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

yeah, they wandered off by themselves in fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 wandered	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 themselves	case
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 wandered	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 fright	case
9	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander off	past	they			fright		by themselves = they	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Trajectory

Option 3

nah, the kid herded them away on purpose to trick the herdsman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 herded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 herded	nsubj
5	herded	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 herded	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 herded	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 herded	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 trick	mark
11	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 herded	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 herdsman	det
13	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd away	past	the kid	them = they		purpose		away property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	trick	to-infinitive	the kid not said here	the herdsman					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herdsman=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the dog chased them to the swamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chased	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 swamp	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swamp	det
9	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the dog	them = they		the swamp			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to swamp=Trajectory

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