Test 7 · ★ · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…
Was the poor brother planning to chuck himself off the wall, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poor brother · What happens: be, plan, chuck · To what, where: poor brother, himself, wall
This is test 7 · ★ 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 brother | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | planning | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 brother | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 chuck | mark |
| 7 | chuck | chuck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 planning | xcomp |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 chuck | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chuck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bruv | punct |
| 13 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wall | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the poor brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | plan | gerund | the poor brother not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | chuck not said to happen | to-infinitive | the poor brother not said here | himself = he | the wall and bruv | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme off wall=Initial_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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he was done with it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 it | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | he | with it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 2
Yeah, he was off to Evora
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 was | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 was | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Evora | case |
| 7 | Evora | Evora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be off | past | he | Evora | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he was done with it all and had nothing left to live for
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 it | det |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nothing | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | he | with it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | past | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||||
| 3 | leave | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, he was only climbing up to look at the view
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 climbing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 climbing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbing | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 climbing | advmod |
| 6 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 climbing | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 climbing | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 view | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 view | det |
| 12 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past · progressive | he | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | he not said here | at the view | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at view=Theme |
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