Test 8 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fatt…

Bro, why'd the fire need building up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fire · What happens: need, build up · To what, where: fire

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1210 «Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fattened up for a feast» 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	7 need	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 need	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 fire	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	obl
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 need	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 building	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		the fire				Bro vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	build up not said to happen	gerund	the fire not said here						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

It had got dead low

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	3 got	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	It					dead, low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It had got dead low, and the broth wasn't hot enough yet

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	3 got	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 low	amod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hot	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hot	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 broth	det
9	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hot	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hot	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hot	advmod
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 hot	advmod
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	It				yet	low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	the broth					enough, hot property	tree rules

Option 3

It had gone grey

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	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	It					grey property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It was too smoky

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	4 smoky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smoky	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 smoky	advmod
4	smoky	smoky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					smoky property	tree rules

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