Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

Mate, why didn't the blokes just kip in that old hut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: blokes · What happens: do, not kip · To what, where: old hut

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 kip	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blokes	det
7	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kip	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 kip	advmod
9	kip	kip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 hut	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 hut	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hut	amod
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kip	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not kip	present	the blokes			that old hut			tree rules

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

The fohn was roaring, so they stayed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fohn	det
2	fohn	fohn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roaring	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roaring	aux
4	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stayed	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roaring	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 stayed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past · progressive	the fohn						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay up	past	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They kept going because the guides wanted to reach the top before the snow came down

The tree, 16 words

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 came	csubj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 wanted	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guides	det
6	guides	guide	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 reach	mark
9	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 snow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reach	obl
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	advcl
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	They				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	gerund					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past	the guides				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	the guides not said here	the top	before the snow		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
5	come down	past	going			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cos the wind was too loud to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 loud	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loud	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind					loud property	tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the wind not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They were scared of the old hut ghosts

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 ghosts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ghosts	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ghosts	amod
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ghosts	compound
8	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					of the old hut ghosts; scared property	tree rules

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