Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little…

Did the old sailor and his wife plant a tree when they were kids?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife plant, sailor · What happens: do, tree, be · To what, where: old sailor, kids

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 871 «Fairy Tales, The Little Elder-Tree Mother, part 82: Little Claus tricks Great Claus into the river, and an old man begins a story from the teapot» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sailor	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sailor	amod
4	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tree	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plant	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plant	compound
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	nsubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sailor	conj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 kids	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kids	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kids	cop
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Did	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the old sailor and a tree	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Eventuality
2	tree		his wife plant		tree rules
3	is a	past	sailor	kids	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

Nah, they just watered the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 watered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 watered	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 watered	advmod
5	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	water	past	they	the grass					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent grass=Destination

Option 2

Yeah, they planted a whole orchard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 planted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 planted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planted	nsubj
4	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 orchard	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 orchard	amod
7	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 planted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	they	a whole orchard					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orchard=Patient

Option 3

Nah, they dug a hole for a pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dug	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 pond	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pond	det
9	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	they	a hole				for a pond	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hole=Result for pond=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they stuck a branch in the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	they	a branch		the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme in ground=Destination

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