Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

Bro, what rule did the second wife make up to catch Silver-tree?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rule, Bro · What happens: do, make up, catch · To what, where: Bro, Silver tree

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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	9 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 wife	amod
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 make	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 catch	mark
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
13	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Silver	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 catch	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	rule	Bro	tree rules
2	make up	present	Bro		tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	Bro not said here	Silver tree	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

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 drink-pourer sips first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sips	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pourer	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 drink	punct
4	pourer	pourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sips	compound
5	sips	sip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sips	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

whoever offers the drink tastes it first, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 offers	nsubj
2	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drink	det
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tastes	nsubj
5	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 offers	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tastes	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tastes	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 tastes	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	present	whoever						tree rules
2	taste	present	the drink	it				first property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 3

the one who gives out the drink must taste it first, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taste	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 gives	nsubj
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 gives	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drink	det
7	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 taste	aux
9	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 taste	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 taste	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taste	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	present	the one	the drink					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
2	taste	must	the one	drink				bruv vocative; first property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the drink-giver tastes first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tastes	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giver	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 drink	punct
4	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tastes	compound
5	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tastes	advmod

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

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