Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Did the crows and daws scarper when the lady said stop?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crows, lady · What happens: scarper, say, stop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crows	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crows	det
3	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scarper	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daws	cc
5	daws	daw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crows	conj
6	scarper	scarper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 said	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scarper	advcl
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scarper	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	scarper	present	the crows and daws	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the lady	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	infinitive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

nah, they came back the next day, but only after the lady had gone

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 lady	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 lady	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	they				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	the lady						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they came back the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	they				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah, they scarpered for the forest and didn't come back all summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 scarpered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scarpered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scarpered	nsubj
4	scarpered	scarper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scarpered	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scarpered	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 summer	det
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scarper	past	they					for the forest	tree rules
2	not come back	past · do-support	they not said here				summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, they left for the marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 marsh	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 marsh	det
7	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they					for the marsh	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for marsh=Recipient

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