Test 3 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

Yo, why did the farmer's wife go mental and blame the onion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wife · What happens: go, blame · To what, where: onion

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 farmer	case
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 go	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blame	cc
12	blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 go	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 onion	det
14	onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blame	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the farmer's wife					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blame	present	the farmer's wife not said here	the onion					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent onion=Theme

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 right answer

She reckoned it was poisoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poisoned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poisoned	aux:pass
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	She						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	poison	past · passive		it					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

She was sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sick	cop
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					sick property	tree rules

Option 3

She reckoned it was rotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rotten	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rotten	cop
5	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	She						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					rotten property	tree rules

Option 4

She was just tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					tired property	tree rules

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