Test 12 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Ayo, what did the girl's mum and dad keep saying?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayo, mum · What happens: do, keep, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
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 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mum	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 girl	case
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dad	cc
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mum	conj
11	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keep	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Ayo	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present	the girl's mum and dad	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the girl's mum and dad not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

the names are all taken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taken	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · passive		the names				all property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

the names are all taken and the baby has none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taken	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 has	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · passive		the names				all property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	have	present	the baby	none					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the girls were all named

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 named	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 named	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 named	advmod
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the girls				all property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

the names were all chosen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chosen	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chosen	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 chosen	advmod
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		the names				all property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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