Test 4 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

Lowkey, why did the brownie say he was helping Jegu?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey, brownie · What happens: do, say, help · To what, where: Jegu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brownie	det
6	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 helping	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 helping	aux
10	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
11	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 helping	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the brownie		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	past · progressive	brownie	Jegu	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jegu=Beneficiary

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

Jegu was kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jegu					kind property	tree rules

Option 2

Jegu had fed his horses well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fed	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fed	aux
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horses	nmod:poss
5	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fed	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · perfect · passive		Jegu				well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient horse=Theme

Option 3

he liked Jegu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	Jegu					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jegu=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jegu had saved his robin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saved	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saved	aux
3	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 robin	nmod:poss
5	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · perfect	Jegu	Jegu's robin					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robin=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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