Test 13 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Mate, wait, the hag had one eye and a crooked back, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hag · What happens: wait, have · To what, where: one eye

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wait	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hag	det
6	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	ccomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eye	nummod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 back	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 back	det
12	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 back	amod
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eye	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	3 wait	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					Mate vocative	tree rules
2	have	past	the hag	one eye and a crooked back					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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

Nah, the hag had two good eyes and a straight back, and Minnikin met her after going west and north

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hag	det
4	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 eyes	nummod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 back	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 straight	det
11	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 back	nsubj
12	back	back	ADV	_	8 eyes	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 met	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 met	cc
15	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 met	obj
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 going	mark
19	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 met	advcl
20	west	west	ADV	_	19 going	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 north	cc
22	north	north	ADV	_	20 west	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hag	two good eyes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	meet	past	Minnikin	hag		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Co-Agent
3	go	gerund	Minnikin not said here		west property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yep, Minnikin met her after going east, and she had a crooked back and one eye, poor thing

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 met	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 met	advcl
8	east	east	ADV	_	7 going	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 back	det
14	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 back	amod
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eye	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 eye	nummod
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 back	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 back	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Minnikin	her = she		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Co-Agent
2	go	gerund	Minnikin not said here		east property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Minnikin	a crooked back and one eye and poor thing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, Minnikin met her after going east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 met	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 met	advcl
8	east	east	ADV	_	7 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Minnikin	her = she					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Co-Agent
2	go	gerund	Minnikin not said here					east property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she had two eyes, straight back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 eyes	nummod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 back	punct
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 back	advmod
9	back	back	ADV	_	4 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	two eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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