Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

Why did the younger one go to the fig-tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: younger one · What happens: go · To what, where: fig tree

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fig	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the younger one			the fig tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_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 · ✓ the right answer

To check if his bro was alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 alive	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bro	nmod:poss
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alive	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	his bro					alive property	tree rules

Option 2

To check if his bro was alive and still under the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 alive	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bro	nmod:poss
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alive	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 alive	cop
7	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 check	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 still	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	7 alive	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 spell	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spell	det
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	his bro			the spell		alive property	tree rules

Option 3

To look for his bro's grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 grave	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bro	nmod:poss
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 bro	case
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						for his bro's grave	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for grave=Theme

Option 4

To see whether his bro lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 lived	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bro	nmod:poss
5	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	live	past	his bro						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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