Test 12 · ★ · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…

the gardener had three sons, yeah, all watching the tree?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gardener, all · What happens: have, watch · To what, where: three sons, tree

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 725 «Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest son catches the bird, is caught, and must fetch a golden horse» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watching	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 watching	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watching	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 watching	nsubj
10	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sons	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watching	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the gardener	three sons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	watch	gerund	all	the tree					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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

Nah, the first two were watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 watching	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 two	amod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 watching	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watching	aux
7	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	the first two						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, but the first two fell asleep and the third son stayed awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 two	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 two	amod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stayed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 son	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 son	amod
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stayed	nsubj
13	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
14	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the first two					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	past	the third son					awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, but the first two fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 two	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 two	amod
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the first two					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, there were four sons, and all of them were watching the tree together

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 were	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 watching	advcl
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 watching	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watching	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 watching	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 watching	aux
13	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 watching	obj
16	together	together	ADV	_	13 watching	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	four sons			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	past · progressive	all	the tree				together property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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