Test 2 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

Mate, was Catherine basically broke before all this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate Catherine · What happens: be, break · To what, where: Mate Catherine, this

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	4 Catherine	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Catherine	cop
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 broke	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 broke	advmod
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 this	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 this	det:predet
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 broke	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mate Catherine					tree rules
2	break	past	Mate Catherine			this		basically property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before this=Location

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'd been rich once, then her whole family lost everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 rich	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lost	advmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 family	amod
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	nsubj
13	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	conj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	she					once, rich property	tree rules
2	lose	past	her whole family	everything			then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, she'd been rich once, then lost it all and had to beg for food

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 rich	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 lost	advmod
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 beg	mark
16	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 food	case
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beg	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	she			once, rich property	tree rules
2	lose	past		it	then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	have	past					tree rules
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive				for food	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, she'd been rich once, then her husband gambled it all away

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 rich	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gambled	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 gambled	advmod
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gambled	nsubj
12	gambled	gamble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gambled	obj
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	12 gambled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	she					once, rich property	tree rules
2	gamble	past	her husband	it			then	away property	vn risk-94 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Pivot

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she'd been rich once, then lost it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rich	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rich	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 rich	cop
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 rich	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 lost	advmod
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rich	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	she					once, rich property	tree rules
2	lose	past	she not said here	it			then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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