Test 3 · ★ · Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three…

Why did the brothers say Cinderlad couldn't come, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, Cinderlad · What happens: say, not come · To what, where: fam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1492 «Norse Tales, Cinderlad, part 79: Cinderlad shows the three golden apples» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fam	punct
11	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the brothers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come	could	Cinderlad	fam					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Cause he was too ugly and dirty and never left the cinders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 ugly	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ugly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ugly	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 ugly	advmod
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dirty	cc
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ugly	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ugly	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cinders	det
12	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		ugly property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	not leave	past	he not said here	the cinders		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cinder=Theme

Option 2

Cause he was too small and weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 small	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 weak	cc
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					small property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cause he was far too ugly and dirty to be seen at a palace, fam

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	6 ugly	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ugly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ugly	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 ugly	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 ugly	advmod
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dirty	cc
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ugly	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	11 seen	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dirty	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fam	punct
16	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 palace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		far, ugly property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here	a palace and fam		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he was too ugly and dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 ugly	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ugly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ugly	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 ugly	advmod
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dirty	cc
7	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ugly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					ugly property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

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