Test 12 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

Honestly, what did the brownie tell Jegu to do in the meantime?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brownie · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: Jegu, meantime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brownie	det
6	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 meantime	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meantime	det
13	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the brownie		Jegu			honestly property	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the brownie not said here			the meantime			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

go and rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rest	cc
3	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rest	infinitive	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

eat and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sleep	cc
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	infinitive	you not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

go home, eat well and sleep until the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 eat	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 go	conj
8	until	until	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	you not said here		well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	infinitive	you not said here	morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

wait at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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