Test 4 · ★ · Breton Fairy Tales, Tephany: a proud beauty loses her magi…

and then the farm boys went full on fight over her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farm boys · What happens: go · To what, where: fight

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1329 «Breton Fairy Tales, Tephany: a proud beauty loses her magic gifts and chooses an honest life» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
4	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boys	compound
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 fight	case
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the farm boys			fight	then	over her = she; full property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over she=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

yeah, they were fighting over who would win her, then shoving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fighting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fighting	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fighting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fighting	aux
5	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	SCONJ	_	9 win	mark
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 win	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 win	aux
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fighting	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 win	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shoving	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 shoving	advmod
13	shoving	shove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fighting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	they			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	win	would		her = she		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	shove	gerund	they not said here		then	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they were arguing who gets to do the most for her, then punches

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 arguing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arguing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arguing	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arguing	aux
5	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 arguing	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gets	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 most	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 do	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 punches	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 punches	advmod
16	punches	punch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arguing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	they	punches		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive			for her = she	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, just talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 talking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 talking	advmod
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yep, they argued about her and then started hitting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 argued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	nsubj
4	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 argued	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 started	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 started	advmod
9	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 argued	conj
10	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	they		about her = she	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about she=Topic
2	start	past	they not said here	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hit	gerund	they not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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