Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56…

Who's the tiny bloke sitting on the stone eggs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny bloke · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: tiny bloke, stone eggs

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1331 «Fairy Tales from Brittany, Houarn and the Groac'h, part 56: Bellah dresses as a young man, rides a magic horse, and turns the fairy into a toad» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bloke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bloke	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bloke	amod
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bloke	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eggs	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eggs	compound
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sitting	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the tiny bloke					tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the tiny bloke not said here			the stone eggs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=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

One of her suitors, trapped till they hatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 suitors	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 suitors	nmod:poss
4	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trapped	punct
6	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 suitors	acl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 hatch	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hatch	nsubj
9	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trapped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	participle		her suitors not said here					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hatch	present	suitors = suitor						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The husband of the Groac'h, stuck there till the stone eggs hatch and he is free again, innit

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Groac'h	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Groac'h	det
5	Groac'h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 husband	punct
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stuck	advmod
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 hatch	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eggs	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eggs	compound
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hatch	nsubj
13	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stuck	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 free	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 free	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 free	cop
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hatch	conj
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 free	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 innit	punct
20	innit	innit	INTJ	_	7 stuck	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	the husband of the Groac'h	there			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	hatch	present	the stone eggs				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	husband		again	free property	tree rules

Option 3

The husband of the Groac'h, stuck in the nest till the stone eggs hatch, and nobody can help him

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hatch	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Groac'h	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Groac'h	det
5	Groac'h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hatch	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 hatch	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eggs	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eggs	compound
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hatch	nsubj
15	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 help	cc
18	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 help	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 help	aux
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hatch	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	the husband of the Groac'h						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	help	can	nobody		husband				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The husband of the Groac'h, stuck till they hatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Groac'h	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Groac'h	det
5	Groac'h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 husband	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 husband	punct
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 hatch	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hatch	nsubj
10	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stuck	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	the husband of the Groac'h						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	hatch	present	they						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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