Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old g…

Bro, so the kids were always climbing on it, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: climb · To what, where: it

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 920 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Grave-Stone, part 131: the old grave-stone is remembered, and a new tale begins with an old house and a leaking dragon gutter» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 climbing	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 climbing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kids	det
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 climbing	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climbing	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 climbing	advmod
8	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 climbing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 climbing	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	8 climbing	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 climbing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past · progressive	Bro			it		always property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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

Yeah, they climbed on it and jumped off it every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 jumped	cc
8	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 jumped	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	they			it			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	jump off	past	they not said here	it			day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, they played hide and seek around it until the maids yelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seek	cc
7	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 played	conj
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seek	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 yelled	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maids	det
12	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 yelled	nsubj
13	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seek	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	play	past	they	hide		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme
2	seek	infinitive	they not said here		hide	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location
3	yell speech: express	past	the maids			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they played on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	they			it			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, they hid under it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they			it			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location

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