Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

so the frog just kept coming back for the princess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frog · What happens: keep, come back

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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	_	5 kept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 coming	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the frog						tree rules
2	come back	gerund	the frog not said here					for the princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «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

nah, he stayed in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 spring	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he				spring		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

nah, he came back to the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 spring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spring	det
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	he				spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he kept tapping at the door every single night until she finally let him in

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tapping	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tapping	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tapping	obl:unmarked
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 let	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
14	finally	finally	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	15 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he				tree rules
2	tap	gerund	he not said here		night	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	let in	infinitive	she	him = he		finally property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he tapped at the door again at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tapped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tapped	nsubj
4	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tapped	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 tapped	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tap	past	he				again; night	at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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