Test 8 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

Bet, how many petticoats was she rocking on holidays?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bet · What happens: rock · To what, where: holidays

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rocking	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 petticoats	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 petticoats	amod
5	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bet	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rocking	aux
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rocking	nsubj
8	rocking	rock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 holidays	case
10	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rocking	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 rocking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rock	past · progressive	Bet and many petticoats			holidays			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on holiday=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

five embroidered petticoats worn under her skirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 petticoats	nummod
2	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 petticoats	amod
3	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 petticoats	acl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 skirt	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skirt	nmod:poss
7	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear	participle		five embroidered petticoats not said here		her skirt			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

six petticoats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 petticoats	nummod
2	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

five stiff white petticoats with lace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 petticoats	nummod
2	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 petticoats	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 petticoats	amod
4	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lace	case
6	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 petticoats	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

five petticoats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 petticoats	nummod
2	petticoats	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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