Test 10 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

Did the two young men just let him go, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two young men, him · What happens: let, go, innit · To what, where: him

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 let	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the two young men	him = he	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	innit	infinitive	the two young men not said here		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

Yeah, they waved him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 waved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waved	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waved	nsubj
4	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waved	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 waved	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave off	past	they	him = he					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they marched him to court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 marched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marched	nsubj
4	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marched	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 court	mark
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marched	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	they	him = he					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

Option 3

Nah, they marched him straight off to court in chains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 marched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marched	nsubj
4	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marched	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 marched	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 court	case
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 off	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 chains	case
11	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 marched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	past	they	him = he		chains		off property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in chain=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they let him go but then followed him to the court-house

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 followed	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 followed	advmod
9	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 followed	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 court	punct
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 followed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	present	they	him = he			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	follow	past	they not said here	him = he	the court house	then	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Trajectory

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