Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Two Brothers, part 69: the lazy siste…

So the twins christened each other like at church, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: twins · What happens: christen · To what, where: each

This is test 9 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 christened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twins	det
3	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 christened	nsubj
4	christened	christen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 christened	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 church	case
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 each	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 each	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	4 christened	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 christened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	christen	past	the twins	each				like church	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme

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

Yep, in the church by the altar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 church	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 church	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 church	det
5	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 altar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 altar	det
8	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 church	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yep, at church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 church	case
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yep	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, by a brook in the meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 brook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brook	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 brook	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brook	det
5	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 meadow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meadow	det
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brook	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nah, at church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 church	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 church	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 church	case
4	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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