Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Be real, did anyone ever find out what happened to his mum and dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone · What happens: be, find out, happen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 find	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 find	nsubj
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 find	advmod
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 find	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mum	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happened	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dad	cc
15	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mum	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			real property	tree rules
2	find out	past · do-support	anyone	ever		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past			to his mum and dad	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

No, the records were burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 records	det
4	records	record	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burned	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 burned	aux:pass
6	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · passive		the records					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Nope, the story only says they left him in the woods when he was a baby

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 says	advmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 woods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 baby	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 baby	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 baby	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 baby	det
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the story			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	past	they	story	the woods	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in wood=Location
3	is a	past	story	a baby		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nope, the historians forgot to say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 historians	det
4	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forgot	nsubj
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forgot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the historians						tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the historians not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, they were found later living in a far village and kept in touch

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux:pass
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 living	advmod
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 found	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 living	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
13	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 found	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 touch	case
15	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		they			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	live	gerund	they not said here		a far village	late property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
3	keep	participle			touch		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location

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