Test 6 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

did the eldest brother actually get his sheep back fam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: sheep

This is test 6 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sheep	nmod:poss
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	10 fam	advmod
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support		his sheep				fam obl; actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus

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

Nah the wolf ate them all, and then he went off to find the second brother's flock too

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 went	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brother	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 brother	amod
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flock	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 brother	case
19	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	14 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	past	the wolf	them = they		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	go off	past	wolf		then	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	wolf not said here	the second brother's flock		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Topic

Option 2

Yeah they all came home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah the wolf ate them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah the sheep ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	past	the sheep					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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