def _read_gold_conllu_simplified(gold_file):
    """
    Reads in the gold annotation from a file in CoNLL-U format.
    WARNING: Does not read in extra edges in 9th column!

    Returns:
        - tags: a String list containing one sequence tag per line.
                E.g. [B-Kochschritt, L-Kochschritt, U-Zutat, O]
        - heads: a String list containing one head reference (its token ID)
                 per line.
        - deps: a String list containing one dependency name per line for the
                relation between the token in that line and the token at the
                ID of 'head'.
        - lines: a list list containing the original line split at "\t"
    """
    tags = []
    heads = []
    deps = []
    lines = []
    with open(gold_file, encoding="utf-8") as f:
        for line in f:
            if line == "\n":
                continue
            line = line.split("\t")
            try:
                tags.append(line[4])
                heads.append(line[6])
                deps.append(line[7])
            except IndexError:
                raise IndexError(
                    f"Gold file {gold_file} probably isn't written in CoNLL-U format."
                )
            lines.append(line[:-1])
    return tags, heads, deps, lines