Test 1 · ★ · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

yo bruv, so how many kids did the widow have, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many kids, yo bruv · What happens: do, have, innit · To what, where: widow

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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	yo	yo	X	_	2 bruv	compound
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 did	advmod
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bruv	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 widow	det
10	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	many kids	the widow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent widow=Eventuality
2	have	present	yo bruv		tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	yo bruv not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

Seven, counting the baby and the twins who were born in the spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 counting	punct
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Seven	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 counting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twins	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 twins	det
8	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 baby	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 born	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 born	aux:pass
11	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 baby	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 spring	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spring	det
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	gerund		the baby and the twins					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme
2	bear	past · passive		the baby and the twins			spring		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Three, all of them boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boys	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 boys	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 all	nmod
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Three	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boy		all						tree rules

Option 3

She had three sons, all of them clever and healthy lads, living in the old cottage together

The tree, 17 words

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lads	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 lads	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 all	nmod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lads	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 healthy	cc
11	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	conj
12	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sons	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 living	punct
14	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 cottage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cottage	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cottage	amod
18	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 living	obl
19	together	together	ADV	_	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	three sons and clever lads		together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	lad		all				tree rules
3	live	gerund	She not said here		the old cottage		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Just the one, her only son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 one	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 her	punct
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 son	advmod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 her	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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