Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

ngl, why was Mr. V's whole deal kinda wild?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: whole deal

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 ngl	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 V	nmod:desc
6	V	V	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 V	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	11 wild	advmod
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	V Mr.'s whole deal					tree rules

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

he kept swapping stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swapping	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	swap	gerund	he not said here	stuff					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

Option 2

he swapped his wife's cow for a broken door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swapped	nsubj
2	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swapped	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	he	his wife's cow				for a broken door	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for door=Co-Theme
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

he kept buying things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	buy	gerund	he not said here	things					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

he kept swapping stuff for things he didn't need

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swapping	swap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapping	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 things	case
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swapping	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 need	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			tree rules
2	swap	gerund	he not said here	stuff	for things	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme for thing=Co-Theme
3	not need	past · do-support	he	things not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme

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