Test 8 · ★ · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

bro, why did she cry by the fire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: cry

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cry	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cry	nsubj
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · do-support	she					by the fire; bro vocative	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=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

cos she wished she had asked for beauty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 wished	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 beauty	case
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	cos						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	cos					for beauty	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

cos she regretted her wish for wisdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 regretted	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 regretted	nsubj
3	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wish	nmod:poss
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 regretted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 wisdom	case
7	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 regretted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regret	past	cos	cos's wish				for wisdom	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus for wisdom=Attribute
2	wish		cos						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

cos she wished she had asked for beauty instead of wisdom from the fairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 wished	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 beauty	case
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 wisdom	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 fairy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fairy	det
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	cos						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect	cos					for beauty; instead wisdom; from the fairy	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

cos she wished for something else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wished	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wished	nsubj
3	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 something	case
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 wished	obl
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	cos					for something	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for something=Theme

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