Test 1 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three sil…

Mate, did the first wife really tell her hubby he was brown bread?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first wife, he · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: hubby, brown bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1334 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Believing Husbands: three silly husbands are tricked by clever wives, and one of them runs naked to a burial» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hubby	nmod:poss
10	hubby	hubby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bread	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bread	cop
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bread	amod
14	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the first wife	wife's hubby				Mate vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hubby=Recipient
2	is a	past	he	brown bread					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

Nah, she said he was sick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sick	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sick	cop
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					sick property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said he was dead and he just lay there like a stiff

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lay	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lay	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 stiff	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stiff	det
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he		dead property	tree rules
3	lie	past	he	there	like a stiff	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, she told him he was ill, and he just went to bed.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ill	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ill	cop
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	him = he			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	past	he			ill property	tree rules
3	go	past	he		bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 4

Nah, she said he was fine and he just got up and left.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fine	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 got	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 got	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	fine property	tree rules
3	get up	past	he		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	leave	participle	he not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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