Test 1 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

Mate, did the rich lady give up after one judge, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate rich lady · What happens: give up

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1307 «Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor brother jumps from the wall onto a sick old man, and two sons drag him to court» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lady	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 judge	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 judge	nummod
11	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 give	iobj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present	the Mate rich lady				after one judge		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Source

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

Yeah, she gave up after the first judge and went home to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 judge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 judge	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 judge	amod
9	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 bed	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	she				after the first judge		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	she not said here			bed		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 2

Nah, she took the case home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	4 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	she	the case				home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme

Option 3

Nah, she wanted every judge in the land to try it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 judge	det
6	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 try	mark
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	every judge		the land			tree rules
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	every judge not said here	judge					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she wanted every judge to try it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 judge	det
6	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 try	mark
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	every judge					tree rules
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	every judge not said here	judge					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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