Test 5 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

Did the muleteer say thanks for the rescue, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: muleteer · What happens: say, innit · To what, where: thanks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 muleteer	det
3	muleteer	muleteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rescue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rescue	det
8	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thanks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the muleteer	thanks				for the rescue	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	innit	infinitive	the muleteer 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

Nah, he said nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 2

Nah, he went proper mental at him and called the law on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 mental	advmod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mental	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 law	det
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past	he not said here	the law				on him = he	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent law=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he went proper mental at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 mental	advmod
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					at him = he; mental property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at he=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he said thanks but then went proper mental at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 said	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 mental	advmod
10	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	thanks					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic
2	go	past	he not said here				then	at him = he; mental property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at he=Location

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