Test 5 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

why did the Fairy's dagger snap on the monk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: do, snap · To what, where: dagger snap

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 snap	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Fairy	case
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snap	compound
7	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 monk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monk	det
10	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Fairy's dagger snap				on the monk	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=Eventuality
2	snap		the Fairy						nom snap «act transitive»: poss=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 monk was too hard, bruv, he had a holy blessing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blessing	det
12	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blessing	amod
13	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the monk					bruv vocative; hard property	tree rules
2	have	past	monk	a holy blessing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient

Option 2

the monk was too hard, bruv, his prayers protected him all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 protected	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	vocative
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 protected	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prayers	nmod:poss
10	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 protected	nsubj
11	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 protected	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 protected	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the monk			bruv vocative; hard property	tree rules
2	protect	past	monk's prayers	monk	day		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	pray		monk				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the blade was too thin, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blade	det
2	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thin	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 thin	advmod
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thin	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the blade					bruv vocative; thin property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the monk was too hard, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monk	det
2	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the monk					bruv vocative; hard property	tree rules

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