Test 2 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

Bruv, why did the lad even bother with those foals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, bother · To what, where: lad

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 bother	advmod
8	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 foals	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 foals	det
11	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bother	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lad				Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	bother	present						with that foals	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

So the colt could suck the mares dry before the brothers came to take them away

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 suck	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colt	det
3	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suck	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suck	aux
5	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mares	det
7	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dry	nsubj
8	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 suck	parataxis
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 brothers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brothers	det
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dry	obl
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	suck	could	the colt				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dry	present	the mares		before the brothers		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come	past					tree rules
4	take away	to-infinitive		mares = mare		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

To keep the mares happy all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mares	det
4	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the mares			day	happy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mare=Theme

Option 3

So the colt could suck the mares while the brothers were away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 suck	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colt	det
3	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suck	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suck	aux
5	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mares	det
7	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 suck	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 away	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brothers	det
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 away	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 away	cop
12	away	away	ADV	_	5 suck	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	could	the colt	the mares					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mare=Source
2	is	past	the brothers					away property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So the colt could suck the mares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 suck	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colt	det
3	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suck	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suck	aux
5	suck	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mares	det
7	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 suck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	could	the colt	the mares					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mare=Source

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