Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the c…

bro why were the two so sad when apart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 740 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fundevogel: the children escape the cook by magic» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sad	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sad	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 apart	advmod
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	7 sad	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	bro					apart, sad property	tree rules

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

they had been told they could never be friends again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 friends	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 friends	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 friends	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 friends	cop
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	iobj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 friends	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient friend=Topic
2	not is a	could	they	friends			again		tree rules

Option 2

they wanted to be together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 together	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 together	cop
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here					together property	tree rules

Option 3

the forester had forbidden them to see each other anymore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forester	det
2	forester	forester	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forbidden	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forbidden	aux
4	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forbidden	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forbidden	xcomp
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 see	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	7 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past · perfect · passive		the forester					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		each				anymore property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they loved each other a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loved	nsubj
2	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 other	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loved	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	each other				a lot obl:unmarked	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus

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