Test 2 · ★ · Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic…

bro why did the cobbler even go fishing, was he broke or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, cobbler · What happens: do, go, be · To what, where: cobbler, fishing

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1262 «Lang Fairy Tales, The Knights of the Fish, part 1: a magic fish gives a poor cobbler two sons who go looking for adventure» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 bro	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cobbler	det
5	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cobbler	acl:relcl
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 broke	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 broke	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 broke	nsubj
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 broke	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the cobbler		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cobbler=Eventuality
2	go	present	the cobbler not said here	fishing		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme
3	is	past	bro		break property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they had no money for bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 money	det
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	no money				for bread	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient

Option 2

yeah, they were starving at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 starving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starving	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 starving	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 starving	aux
5	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	they			home			tree rules

Option 3

yes, times were hard and nobody in the village had money to buy anything at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hard	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 had	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nobody	nmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	conj
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 buy	mark
14	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 buy	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	times			hard property	tree rules
2	have	past	nobody	money			tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	money not said here	anything	all		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Asset

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, his whole family had no food and the landlord was threatening to take the house

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 family	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 family	amod
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threatening	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 landlord	det
11	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threatening	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threatening	aux
13	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 threatening	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	his whole family	no food	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	threaten	past · progressive	the landlord		tree rules
3	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the landlord not said here	the house	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

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