Test 6 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

Dude, why did Barbaik love her wishing trick so much?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Barbaik · What happens: love, wish · To what, where: her, trick

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 love	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 love	aux
5	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 love	nsubj
6	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dude	parataxis
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 love	obj
8	wishing	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 love	xcomp
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wishing	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	8 wishing	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past · do-support	Barbaik	her = she					tree rules
2	wish not said to happen	gerund	Barbaik not said here	trick					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trick=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

she could lie in bed all morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lie	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	could	she			bed	morning		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

Option 2

she could sleep late each day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sleep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sleep	advmod
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	could	she				day	late property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she liked to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 liked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

she could stay in bed longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	could	she			bed		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

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