Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Bruv, why'd the bird never come back, pal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: not come back

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 come	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 come	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pal	punct
11	pal	pal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	vocative
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	infinitive	the bird					Bruv vocative; pal vocative	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

The tailor had let it go out of pity for its tiny wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 pity	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 pity	case
9	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 wings	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wings	amod
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	the tailor	it					tree rules
2	go out	infinitive		pity				for tailor's tiny wings	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was too scared to come back after the giant chased it into the woods

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chased	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scared	xcomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chased	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 woods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				scared property	tree rules
2	come back	to-infinitive				after the giant		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chase	past		giant	the woods			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme into wood=Trajectory

Option 3

It fancied a new mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mate	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	It	a new mate					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mate=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was buzzing free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buzzing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzing	aux
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buzzing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	It					free property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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