Test 9 · ★ · Breton Fairy Tales, Tephany: a proud beauty loses her magi…

so why's Barbaik always on her case, like constantly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barbaik · What happens: be · To what, where: case

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 case	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 case	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 case	cop
4	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 case	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 case	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 case	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 case	nmod:poss
8	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 constantly	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 constantly	case
11	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	8 case	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 constantly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Barbaik			Barbaik's case		always, constantly property	tree rules

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

cause Barbaik lost money on the farm last year and blames Tephany for every single thing that has gone wrong since then

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	ccomp
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 farm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blames	cc
11	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
12	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 blames	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 thing	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 thing	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blames	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 gone	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thing	acl:relcl
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gone	xcomp
21	since	since	ADP	_	22 then	case
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 blames	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here					tree rules
2	lose	past	Barbaik	money	the farm	year		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
3	blame	present	Barbaik not said here	Tephany			for every single thing	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tephany=Theme for thing=Attribute
4	go	present · perfect	every single thing				wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

cause she's mad the farm's messy since Tephany left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 messy	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 farm	case
8	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mad	conj
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
10	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	mad property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here		tree rules
3	leave	past	Tephany		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause she's grumpy and the farm's a mess since she left the work

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumpy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mess	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mess	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mess	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mess	det
10	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	conj
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 left	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 work	det
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	she		grumpy property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the farm	a mess		tree rules
4	leave	past	she	the work		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme

Option 4

cause she's grumpy all the time, and the farm's been a total mess since Tephany stopped doing all the cooking and cleaning like she used to

The tree, 28 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumpy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cause	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mess	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mess	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farm	det
11	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mess	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mess	cop
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 mess	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mess	det
15	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mess	amod
16	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	parataxis
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 stopped	mark
18	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 stopped	nsubj
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mess	advcl
20	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stopped	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 cooking	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cooking	det
23	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doing	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cleaning	cc
25	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cooking	conj
26	like	like	SCONJ	_	28 used	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	nsubj
28	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	28 used	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present			time		vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	she			grumpy property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the farm	a total mess			tree rules
4	stop	past	Tephany				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	do	gerund	Tephany not said here	all cooking and cleaning			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cooking=Eventuality
6	use	past	Tephany				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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