Test 2 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Bear, part 21: the prince…

bruv, why'd she burn the skin, was she well dim?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, bruv · What happens: burn, be · To what, where: skin

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1296 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Bear, part 21: the princess loses her children one by one, then follows her husband on the last journey» 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dim	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 burn	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 burn	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 burn	nsubj
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 bruv	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skin	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dim	cop
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dim	nsubj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 dim	advmod
13	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 dim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	would	she	the skin					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	is	past	bruv					dim, well 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 · ← Mova's choice

cos the wife said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cos	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos the egg-wife said it'd end the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 egg	punct
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 end	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 end	aux
9	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spell	det
11	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cos	infinitive			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the egg wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	end	would	it	the spell	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spell=Eventuality

Option 3

cos the egg-wife said it would end the curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 egg	punct
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 end	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 end	aux
9	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 curse	det
11	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cos	infinitive			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the egg wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	end	would	it	the curse	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality curse=Eventuality

Option 4

cos she was told to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cos	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		she					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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