Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: t…

Mate, how did the soldier even see them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: see · To what, where: them

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 733 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, part 9: the soldier wins a princess, and the fisherman's wife starts asking for more» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 see	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support		them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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

He followed them in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 secret	case
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 followed	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was invisible the whole time thanks to a magic cloak he wore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invisible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invisible	cop
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thanks	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thanks	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thanks	compound
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invisible	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 cloak	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cloak	det
10	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloak	amod
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thanks	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wore	nsubj
13	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thanks	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					the whole time thanks to a magic cloak obl; invisible property	tree rules
2	wear	past	he						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was invisible the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invisible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invisible	cop
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invisible	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He				time	invisible property	tree rules

Option 4

He crept up on them slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 crept	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	obl
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 crept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	He					on them = they; slowly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory

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