Test 4 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

Was the poor man getting a proper hiding with the stick, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poor man · What happens: be, get · To what, where: poor man, proper hiding

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 man	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hiding	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hiding	amod
8	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stick	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stick	det
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 what	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 getting	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the poor man					tree rules
2	get	gerund	the poor man not said here	a proper hiding				with the stick; the poor man obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hiding=Stimulus

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, till the younger brother came and nicked it off him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nicked	cc
9	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicked	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the younger brother						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nick	past	the younger brother not said here	it				off brother	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme off he=Source

Option 2

Yeah, till the farmer dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dropped	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 dropped	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	the farmer	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the muleteer nicked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 muleteer	det
4	muleteer	muleteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	nsubj
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the muleteer	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, till the younger brother nicked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 nicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nicked	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 nicked	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nicked	nsubj
7	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the younger brother	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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