Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…

Is Burd Ellen's brother Childe Rowland the wee one?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: brother

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	cop
2	Burd	Burd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
3	Ellen	Ellen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Burd	flat
4	's	's	PART	_	2 Burd	case
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Childe	nmod:desc
6	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
7	Rowland	Rowland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Childe	flat
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Burd's brother					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

Naw, he's the second oldest brother of three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brother	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brother	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 brother	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brother	det
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 brother	amod
7	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 brother	amod
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naw	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 three	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brother	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Naw	the second oldest brother				of three	tree rules

Option 2

Naw, she's the eldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Naw	Naw	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eldest	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naw	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eldest	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eldest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eldest	det
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Naw					eld property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Aye, he's the youngest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 youngest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 youngest	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 youngest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youngest	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					young property	tree rules

Option 4

Aye, he's the youngest of the seven brothers in the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	6 youngest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Aye	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 youngest	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 youngest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youngest	det
6	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 brothers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brothers	det
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 brothers	nummod
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 youngest	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brothers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of the seven brothers in the family; young property	tree rules

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