Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

so the elves just dipped after they finished?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: elves · What happens: dip, finish

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 dipped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elves	det
3	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dipped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dipped	advmod
5	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 finished	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finished	nsubj
8	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dipped	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dipped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past	the elves						vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	finish	past	elves = elf						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they ran off fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADV	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	they					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, they bolted out the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bolted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bolted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolted	nsubj
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 bolted	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bolted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt out	past	they	the door					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 3

yeah, they skipped off happily into the dark woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 skipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 skipped	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 skipped	nsubj
4	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 skipped	compound:prt
6	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 skipped	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woods	compound
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 skipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip off	past	they			the dark woods		happily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination

Option 4

nah, they stayed around and had a feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay around	past	they					around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	they not said here	a feast					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient

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