Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, part 1: a miller's d…

Bro, how long did they walk back to the mill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: walk back

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 walk	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	aux
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk back	past · do-support	they					to the mill result; Bro vocative; long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mill=Result

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

All the way across the forest, and they arrived at the mill only after a full day and night had passed

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 way	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passed	obl
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 arrived	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 way	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 mill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mill	det
13	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
14	only	only	ADV	_	18 day	advmod
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl:unmarked
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 night	cc
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	conj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 passed	aux
22	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	they	all way across the forest not said here		the mill	day		tree rules
2	pass	past · perfect		all way across the forest					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They walked the whole night long through the forest, stopping only once to rest by a stream in the woods

The tree, 20 words

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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stopping	punct
11	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 once	advmod
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 stopping	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stopping	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 stream	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stream	det
18	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rest	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 woods	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woods	det
21	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	They	the forest	night	long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	stop	gerund	They not said here			once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	rest	to-infinitive	They not said here	the woods		by a stream	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

All night long, till it was morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	till	till	ADP	_	8 morning	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 morning	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 morning	cop
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				till morning		tree rules

Option 4

Through the dark, until early dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 dark	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dark	det
3	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dawn	punct
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dawn	amod
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dark	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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