Test 12 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

Who's the real hero of this bit, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: real hero

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hero	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hero	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hero	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hero	amod
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bit	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hero	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hero	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the real hero				of this bit	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

The poor brother, who still helped the mule out of the swamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 helped	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 helped	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 helped	advmod
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mule	det
9	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 swamp	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 swamp	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swamp	det
13	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the poor brother		the mule	the swamp	still		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The poor brother, who still helped the mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 helped	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 helped	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 helped	advmod
7	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mule	det
9	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the poor brother		the mule		still		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Beneficiary

Option 3

The rich brother, who helped the mule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 helped	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mule	det
8	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the rich brother		the mule				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Beneficiary

Option 4

The poor brother, who fed the farmer's wife and still helped the mule

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 farmer	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 helped	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 helped	advmod
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fed	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mule	det
15	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 helped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	the poor brother		the farmer's wife				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
2	help	past	the poor brother not said here		the mule		still		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Beneficiary

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