Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mot…

What did the babies do when mum didn't come back, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not come back

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 910 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Sparrow-Mother: the gilded mother is pecked to death, and her children burn their own nest» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 come	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 come	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 come	advmod
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	vocative
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	past · do-support						bruv vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They just sat quietly waiting

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 sat	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	They					quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wait	gerund	They not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They fought, then flew off to find food

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 flew	advmod
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 flew	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 flew	xcomp
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fight	past	They			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly off	past	They not said here		then	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	They not said here	food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

They went out

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	They					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They had a proper row over the nest

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 row	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 row	amod
5	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	a proper row		the nest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient

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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