Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Bro, why'd they say "thou art" and "heaven help thee" all the time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, heaven · What happens: say, help · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1572 «Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy sister gets pitch, and two twins set out and part at a crossway» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 art	punct
8	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 art	nsubj
9	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 art	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 help	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 heaven	punct
13	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	nsubj
14	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 art	conj
15	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 help	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 time	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	obl:unmarked
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	help in a quote	present	heaven	thee			time		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary

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

That's really old fashioned talk from centuries ago, it just means you are

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 talk	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 talk	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talk	amod
5	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talk	amod
6	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 centuries	case
8	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obl
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 centuries	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 means	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 means	advmod
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talk	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 means	obj
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	That	old fashioned talk	century	tree rules
2	mean	present	talk	you		tree rules
3	be	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

That's old talk from the past, it just means you are, nothing else at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	amod
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 past	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 past	det
7	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 means	advmod
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	parataxis
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 are	nsubj
13	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 means	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nothing	punct
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 talk	conj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 nothing	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	That	old talk	the past	tree rules
2	mean	present	it			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	does	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That's old talk, it just means you are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	amod
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 means	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 are	nsubj
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	old talk	tree rules
2	mean	present	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	does	present	you		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

That's fancy talk, it means nothing much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	cop
3	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	amod
4	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 means	nsubj
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 means	obj
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	fancy talk					tree rules
2	mean	present	talk	nothing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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