Test 8 · ★ · Greek Tales, The Stag Who Shed Red Tears, part 41: a stray…

lol why did they dry her clothes on the boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: dry · To what, where: clothes, boat

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 830 «Greek Tales, The Stag Who Shed Red Tears, part 41: a stray girl becomes a sister, then the father dies» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 dry	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dry	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dry	nsubj
5	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clothes	nmod:poss
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 dry	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 boat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	past · do-support	they	her clothes		the boat			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=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

they feared the priest would see

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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	they						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see	would	the priest						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nobody could know about the fright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 know	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 fright	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fright	det
6	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	could	nobody					about the fright	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about fright=Stimulus

Option 3

the clothes had to dry before the Turks came back at dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clothes	det
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dry	mark
5	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Turks	det
8	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 dusk	case
12	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	have	past	the clothes		tree rules
2	dry	to-infinitive	the clothes not said here		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come back	past	the Turks	dusk	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

to keep the robbers away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep away	to-infinitive		the robbers				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme

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