Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks…

how many of y'all turned back at the willows, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many · What happens: turn back · To what, where: willows

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 800 «Andersen's Tales, The Bell, part 11: the king's son walks on alone, deeper into the wood after the sound» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 turned	mark
4	y'all	y'all	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 willows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 willows	det
9	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 willows	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	many			the willows and fam			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

two young ones quit early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quit	nsubj
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 quit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	present	two young ones					early property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

two bailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	bailed	bail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 two	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	participle							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

two little ones bailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	bailed	bail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ones	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	participle		two little ones not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

two little ones quit at the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quit	nsubj
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	present	two little ones			the lake			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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