Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

fam, who sat down and made a fire under the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: sit down, make · To what, where: fire, tree

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	fam						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	fam not said here	a fire		the tree			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

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

Frederick and his wicked brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brother	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Frederick	conj

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

Option 2

the soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the thieves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the two travelling merchants from town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 merchants	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 merchants	nummod
3	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 merchants	amod
4	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merchants	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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