Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

What did the proper husband show as proof?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proper husband · What happens: do, show

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husband	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 husband	amod
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	nsubj
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 proof	case
8	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	show	present	the proper husband					as proof	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 seven tongues cut from the serpent's heads, and a cloth he had embroidered himself

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tongues	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tongues	nummod
3	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	nsubj:pass
4	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 heads	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 serpent	case
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 embroidered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 embroidered	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cloth	det
13	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 embroidered	nsubj:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 embroidered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 embroidered	aux
16	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cut	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 embroidered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive		the seven tongues		the serpent's heads			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from head=Material
2	embroider	past · perfect · passive		a cloth					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary himself=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Five tongues and a golden locket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tongues	nummod
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 locket	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 locket	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 locket	amod
6	locket	locket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tongues	conj

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

Option 3

Seven tongues and a bloodied cloth from the serpent's lair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tongues	nummod
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cloth	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
5	bloodied	bloody	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tongues	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 lair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 serpent	det
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lair	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 serpent	case
11	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloody	participle							vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Seven tongues and an embroidered cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tongues	nummod
2	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cloth	cc
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
5	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tongues	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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