Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

Dude, the apples wanted to be shaken, and she just said no?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: apples, Dude, she · What happens: want, shake, say · To what, where: Dude, no · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 apples	det
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 shaken	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 shaken	aux:pass
8	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wanted	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wanted	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 said	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	the apples	Dude	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	shake not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Dude not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	say speech: assert	past	she	no	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

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

Yeah, she shook it hard and one hit her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 shook	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hit	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	she	it				hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	hit	past	one	her = she					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she said one apple might fall and hit her on the head, so no shaking

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 apple	nummod
6	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hit	cc
10	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hit	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 head	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hit	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shaking	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 shaking	advmod
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 shaking	det
18	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	no shaking		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	might	one apple			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	past	one apple not said here	her = she	on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on head=Patient

Option 3

Nah, she shook the tree and got a bruise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shook	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bruise	det
10	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	she	the tree					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	get	past	she not said here	a bruise					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bruise=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said one might fall on her head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 fall	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fall	aux
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fall	might	one			her head			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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