Test 13 · ★ · Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back t…

test: Fr, what did the wife think about two more babies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test, wife · What happens: do, think about · To what, where: two more babies

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 Fr	punct
3	Fr	Fr	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 test	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 think	nsubj
9	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 two	advmod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 babies	nummod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 babies	amod
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 think	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	test						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think about speech: other	present	the wife	two more babies					vn focus-87.1-1 «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

it would be a blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blessing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blessing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blessing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 blessing	det
5	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	it	a blessing					tree rules

Option 2

she wished her husband had found more work at 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	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husband	nmod:poss
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wished	ccomp
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 work	amod
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 sea	case
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 work	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	she						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find	past · perfect · passive		her husband					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme work=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

too many mouths to feed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mouths	amod
3	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feed	mark
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mouths	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive							vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

she feared the babies would never survive the winter

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	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 survive	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 survive	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 survive	advmod
7	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feared	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 winter	det
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 survive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not survive	would	the babies				winter		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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