Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34:…

Ugh, did the stepmum get the girl a bit of a rubbish dowry?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmum · What happens: do, get · To what, where: girl

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1975 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well, part 34: the princess helps three golden heads, wins a king, and her stepsister is sent off with sweets» 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	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ugh	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stepmum	det
5	stepmum	stepmum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 dowry	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dowry	det
13	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dowry	compound
14	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	get	present	the stepmum	the girl				a bit of a rubbish dowry obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus

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

Nah, she got a proper dowry, gold and silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dowry	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dowry	amod
7	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gold	punct
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dowry	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 silk	cc
11	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dowry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	a proper dowry and gold and silk					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dowry=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, just brown bread, cheese and a bottle of beer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bread	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheese	punct
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bottle	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 beer	case
12	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottle	nmod

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

Option 3

Yeah, just brown bread, cheese, a bottle of beer and a rubbish old wooden box for the trip

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bread	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheese	punct
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bottle	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 beer	case
12	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottle	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 box	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rubbish	det
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	nsubj
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 box	amod
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 box	amod
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 trip	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trip	det
21	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	box		a rubbish					for the trip	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, just brown bread, cheese and a bottle of beer, and she had to carry it all herself

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bread	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 bread	advmod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bread	amod
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cheese	punct
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bottle	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bottle	det
10	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bread	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 beer	case
12	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bottle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bread	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carry	obj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 it	det
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	she not said here	beer				herself = she obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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