Test 10 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

did the second brother fall for it or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second brother · What happens: fall

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	nsubj
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fall	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fall	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · do-support	the second brother					for it	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme

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

Yeah he swallowed the bait whole and then the wolf came straight to his flock

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 swallowed	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bait	det
5	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallowed	obj
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swallowed	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 came	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swallowed	conj
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 flock	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 flock	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 flock	nmod:poss
15	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	he	the bait				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Patient
2	come	past	the wolf			wolf's flock	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to flock=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah he swallowed the bait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 swallowed	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bait	det
5	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	he	the bait					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah he swallowed the bait whole, so the wolf went on to the eldest brother next

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 swallowed	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swallowed	nsubj
3	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bait	det
5	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallowed	obj
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swallowed	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swallowed	conj
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 brother	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brother	det
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 brother	amod
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
17	next	next	ADV	_	11 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	he	the bait				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Patient
2	go on	past	the wolf					to the eldest brother; next property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah he ate the whole lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 ate	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lot	amod
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the whole lot					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

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