Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

bro, what was the last deal word he said?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be, say · To what, where: last deal word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 word	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 word	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	compound
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro and the last deal word	the last deal word					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	bro and the last deal word						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 right answer

Done!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Done, it's a deal, old chap!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Done	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deal	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chap	punct
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chap	amod
9	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	appos
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a Done deal					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Agreed, it's a fair trade!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 trade	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Agreed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trade	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trade	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trade	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trade	amod
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 trade	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a fair trade					tree rules

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