Test 8 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

Innit, who warned them not to turn round?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: warn, not turn round · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 warned	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 warned	nsubj
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warned	obj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 turn	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 warned	ccomp
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 warned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Innit		them = they				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not turn round	to-infinitive						round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

the youngest brother's faithful dog and horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 brother	case
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horse	cc
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	conj

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

Option 2

the old woman from the cottage in the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cottage	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

the hermit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hermit	det
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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