Test 9 · ★ · Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Cath…

Bro, what was the wheel lady even about?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: wheel lady

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1641 «Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Catherine gets a silken ball from her Destiny's sister» 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	_	7 lady	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lady	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	compound
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 about	advmod
9	about	about	ADV	_	7 lady	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro and the wheel lady	the wheel lady				about property	tree rules

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

She offered a weird deal, kinda random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 offered	nsubj
2	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 random	punct
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 random	advmod
8	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 offered	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	She	a weird deal					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent deal=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She asked the dumb choice, youth or old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 youth	punct
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choice	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 age	cc
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 age	amod
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	She	the dumb choice and youth or old age					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent choice=Recipient

Option 3

She asked the dumb choice, youth or old age, and then made Catherine pick right then and there

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 youth	punct
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choice	conj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 age	cc
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 age	amod
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 choice	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 made	advmod
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
15	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	right	right	ADV	_	16 pick	advmod
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 pick	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 there	cc
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 then	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	She	the dumb choice and youth or old age			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent choice=Recipient
2	make	past	She not said here	Catherine	then		tree rules
3	pick	infinitive	Catherine not said here		then	right property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She asked a silly question about wealth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 wealth	case
7	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 question	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	She	a silly question				about wealth	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about wealth=Topic

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