Test 6 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

So what did the mule leave behind in the mud, like?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mule · What happens: leave behind · To what, where: mud

This is test 6 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 leave	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mule	det
5	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	nsubj
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mud	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mud	det
10	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	6 leave	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	past · do-support	the mule			the mud		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme in mud=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its tail, in the poor man's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hand	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tail	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Its saddle, in the poor man's hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 saddle	nmod:poss
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hand	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 man	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saddle	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Its tail, still stuck in the poor man's hand after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stuck	punct
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 stuck	advmod
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tail	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hand	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Its shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoe	nmod:poss
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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