Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's d…

Lol, did the peas and lentils just grow up out of nowhere?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peas · What happens: do, grow up

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 747 «Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's daughter escapes the robbers' house» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peas	det
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lentils	cc
7	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 peas	conj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 grow	advmod
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 grow	compound:prt
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 nowhere	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 out	fixed
13	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 grow	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow up	present	the peas and lentils						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nowhere=Location

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

Yeah, they sprouted, so they could follow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sprouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sprouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprouted	nsubj
4	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 follow	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 follow	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 follow	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 follow	aux
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sprouted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	past	they						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	follow	could	they						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they sprouted overnight and then grew tall enough to guide them through the dark forest by moonlight

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sprouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sprouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprouted	nsubj
4	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	4 sprouted	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 grew	advmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprouted	conj
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 grew	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 guide	mark
12	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grew	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guide	obj
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guide	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 moonlight	case
19	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	past	they				overnight property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	grow	past	they not said here			then	enough, tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	guide	to-infinitive	they not said here	them = they	the dark forest		by moonlight	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through forest=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, the peas and lentils sprouted into a whole field of vines that led them safely all the way home to the mill

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 peas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 peas	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peas	det
4	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lentils	cc
6	lentils	lentil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 peas	conj
7	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 peas	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprouted	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 vines	case
13	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 field	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 led	nsubj
15	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 vines	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 led	obj
17	safely	safely	ADV	_	7 sprouted	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 way	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sprouted	obl
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 way	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 mill	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mill	det
24	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 home	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	participle	the peas and lentils not said here	all way		a whole field of vines		safely property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into field=Location
2	lead	past	vines	vines = vine					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they sprouted and guided them in the moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sprouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sprouted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sprouted	nsubj
4	sprouted	sprout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 guided	cc
6	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprouted	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 guided	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moonlight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moonlight	det
10	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	past	they						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	guide	past	they not said here	them = they		the moonlight			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in moonlight=Destination

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