Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird'…

so the king's sons all died because they kept falling asleep??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sons · What happens: die, keep, fall

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 732 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow and the Carter: the bird's revenge, then the twelve dancing princesses begin» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 died	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sons	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 died	advmod
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 died	advcl
11	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 falling	xcomp
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die	past	the king's sons	all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	keep	past	sons = son		tree rules
3	fall	gerund	sons = son not said here	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «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

yeah, all of them, cos they fell asleep first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 yeah	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 fell	advmod

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

Option 2

yeah, every single one of them died, cos they didn't stay awake even once to see the soldier

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nmod
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stay	punct
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 stay	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stay	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stay	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 stay	advmod
14	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 died	conj
15	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stay	xcomp
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 once	advmod
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 stay	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stay	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soldier	det
21	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	every single one of them			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not stay	past · do-support	they		awake, once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	they not said here	the soldier		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus

Option 3

yeah, every one of them, because they kept falling asleep and never stayed awake to guard the door

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	parataxis
11	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 falling	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stayed	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 stayed	advmod
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	conj
16	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stayed	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 guard	mark
18	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stayed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they			tree rules
2	fall	gerund	they not said here		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not stay	past	they not said here		awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	guard	to-infinitive	they not said here	the door		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, every one of them, cos they didn't stay awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stay	punct
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 stay	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stay	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stay	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stay	advmod
12	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 one	acl:relcl
13	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stay	past · do-support	they	every one of them not said here				awake property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme one=Location

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