Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude g…

why did the cobbler help her, the mad soft lad?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cobbler · What happens: help · To what, where: her

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1976 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Heads of the Well: a rude girl is cursed by the heads and wed to a cobbler» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 help	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cobbler	det
4	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lad	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lad	det
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lad	amod
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lad	amod
11	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 lad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past · do-support	the cobbler		her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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

he was just being kind

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	5 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted to do a good deed

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deed	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deed	amod
7	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a good deed					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he wanted the reward the king had promised him for a cure

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reward	det
4	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promised	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 promised	aux
8	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 reward	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 promised	iobj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 cure	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cure	det
12	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the reward					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reward=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	the king	the reward not said here	him = he			for a cure goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme for cure=Goal

Option 4

he was a kind bloke who wanted to help anyone in 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	5 bloke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bloke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bloke	amod
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bloke	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 help	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 need	case
12	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a kind bloke			tree rules
2	want	past	a kind bloke				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	a kind bloke not said here		anyone	need	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Beneficiary

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