Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

Like, why did the howling stop for good?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: howling stop

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 767 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stop	det
6	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	compound
7	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the howling stop				for good	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=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 dogs had gone off to find their old master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 gone	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 master	amod
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · perfect	the dogs						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	the dogs not said here	dogs's old master					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The dogs had disappeared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disappeared	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	aux
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past · perfect · passive		the dogs					tree rules

Option 3

The dogs had been freed by the youth's kindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 freed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 freed	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 freed	aux:pass
5	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 kindness	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kindness	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 youth	case
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 freed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past · perfect · passive	the youth's kindness	the dogs					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Source

Option 4

The dogs had all died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	the dogs					all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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