Test 13 · ★ · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

Wait, his bride was working as a cook for her sisters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bride · What happens: wait, work

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 working	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bride	nmod:poss
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 working	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 working	aux
6	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Wait	advcl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 cook	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cook	det
9	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 working	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 sisters	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sisters	nmod:poss
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 working	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	past · progressive	his bride					as a cook; for bride's sisters	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as cook=Attribute for sister=Beneficiary

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

Yup, she cooked for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cooked	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	nsubj
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	she					for them = they; Yup vocative	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, she was the cook for her sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cook	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 sisters	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sisters	nmod:poss
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cook	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Yup	the cook				for her sisters	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she was a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 maid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 maid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 maid	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 maid	det
6	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a maid					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she wasn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	past	she						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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