Test 12 · ★ · The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2:…

Honest, why did the elder brother tie his bro up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elder brother · What happens: tie up · To what, where: bro

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1613 «The Violet Fairy Book, How the Dragon Was Tricked, part 2: a clever youth tricks a king, a shepherd and a dragon» 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tie	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tie	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tie	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tie	nsubj
8	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Honest	parataxis
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bro	nmod:poss
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tie	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	8 tie	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · do-support	the elder brother	brother's bro					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bro=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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he was jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 jealous	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jealous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					jealous property	tree rules

Option 2

Cos he hated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hated	nsubj
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	Cos not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cos=Stimulus

Option 3

Because he was angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 angry	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 angry	cop
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cos he wanted the farm and the sheep for himself alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farm	det
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sheep	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 farm	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wanted	obl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos	the farm and the sheep				for Cos; alone property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot farm=Theme

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