Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, pa…

Mate, what did the bloke say his wife had done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloke, wife · What happens: say, do · To what, where: Mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1158 «Fairy Tales (pg3027), The Cat, the Falcon and the Ogre, part 24: the stone is fished back out of the sea» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the bloke	Mate					tree rules
2	do	past · perfect	bloke's wife						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

She'd betrayed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betrayed	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betrayed	aux
3	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betrayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betray	past · perfect	She	him = he					tree rules

Option 2

She'd stolen his gold and fled to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stolen	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	aux
3	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stolen	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fled	cc
7	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stolen	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect	She	his gold					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme
2	flee	past	She not said here			the sea			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location

Option 3

She'd sold his horse to the ogre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sold	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ogre	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ogre	det
8	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · perfect	She	his horse	the ogre				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to ogre=Recipient

Option 4

She'd ignored him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignored	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ignored	aux
3	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past · perfect	She	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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