Test 12 · ★ · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

so why did she offer the old lady her bacon?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: offer · To what, where: bacon, old lady

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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	_	5 offer	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 offer	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 offer	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 offer	nsubj
5	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	obj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bacon	nmod:poss
10	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	she	her bacon	the old lady				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent lady=Goal bacon=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

cos she was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	cos not said here				hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

cos she was full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	cos not said here				full property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cos she wanted to be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 kind	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	cop
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cos						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	cos not said here					kind property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos she felt bad for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	cos					for her = she; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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