Test 1 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

Oi, why's Jem stuck luggin cabbages for that old bird?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jem · What happens: stick · To what, where: luggin cabbages

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stuck	advmod
4	's	's	PUNCT	_	6 stuck	punct
5	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	nsubj
6	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Oi	parataxis
7	luggin	luggin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cabbages	compound
8	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stuck	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 bird	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 bird	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past	Jem	luggin cabbages				for that old bird	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cabbage=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

Cos she's too weak fer that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	6 fer	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fer	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fer	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 weak	advmod
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fer	amod
6	fer	fer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fer	dep

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos she can't carry nothin herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 carry	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carry	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 carry	advmod
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	nothin	nothin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	can	she	nothin				herself = she obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothin=Theme

Option 3

Cos Mum said he gotta help her every single day innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
5	gotta	gotta	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 innit	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 innit	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 innit	compound
11	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help	infinitive	Mum not said here	Mum					tree rules

Option 4

Cos she lost her strong legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 lost	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 legs	nmod:poss
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legs	amod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	she	her strong legs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality

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