Test 4 · ★ · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

Bruv, what was the dodgy plan with the houses?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: dodgy plan

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1306 «Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the greedy wife sues to win the unfinished houses» 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
6	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 houses	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 houses	det
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plan	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	the dodgy plan				with the houses	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

Sue his brother for the houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sue	Sue	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	compound
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 houses	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 houses	det
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brother	nmod

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

Option 2

Trick his brother into signing them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trick	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 signing	mark
5	signing	sign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Trick	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 signing	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 signing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	imperative	you not said here	his brother					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	sign back	gerund	you not said here	them = they					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Get them back off his brother in court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 brother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 court	case
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back	imperative	you not said here	them = they		court		off his brother	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

Get them back off his brother in court by proving the gift was never properly made and the papers were false

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 brother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 court	case
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 proving	mark
10	proving	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Get	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gift	det
12	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux:pass
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 made	advmod
15	properly	properly	ADV	_	16 made	advmod
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 proving	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 false	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 papers	det
19	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 false	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 false	cop
21	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 proving	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get back	imperative	you not said here	them = they	court	off his brother	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	prove	gerund	you not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not make	past · passive		the gift		properly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	is	past	the papers			false property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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