Test 4 · ★ · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…

lol so the soldiers were just snoring by the gate, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldiers · What happens: snore

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 snoring	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 snoring	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 snoring	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 snoring	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 snoring	advmod
7	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snoring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snoring	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 snoring	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 snoring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	past · progressive	the soldiers					by the gate	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, they chased the youngest son to the castle gate and back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	compound
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 back	cc
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	they	the youngest son		the castle gate and back			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent son=Theme to gate=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they were fast asleep and the gate was already open for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 asleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asleep	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 asleep	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 open	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 open	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 open	cop
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 open	advmod
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 asleep	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 open	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					asleep, fast property	tree rules
2	is	past	the gate					for them = they; open property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they were busy dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dancing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dancing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	cop
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dancing	amod
6	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	busy dancing					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were fast asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 asleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asleep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asleep	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asleep	cop
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 asleep	advmod
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					asleep, fast property	tree rules

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