Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

So the twins weren't actually hers, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: twins · What happens: not be · To what, where: hers

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2020 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tests her twins with a hen's eggshell and gets her real children back» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 hers	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twins	det
3	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hers	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hers	advmod
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 hers	advmod
7	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hers	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 hers	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	the twins	hers = she				actually property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the mum reckoned they were hers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckoned	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hers	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hers	cop
8	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the mum						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	hers = she					tree rules

Option 2

Nah, the dad reckoned they were his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 his	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 his	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the dad						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	his = he					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the goblins swapped them and the dad had no say in the matter at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goblins	det
4	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swapped	nsubj
5	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swapped	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dad	det
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swapped	conj
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 say	det
12	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 matter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 matter	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past	the goblins	them = they					vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	have	past	the dad	no say		the matter at all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent say=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the dad reckoned they weren't his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckoned	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 his	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 his	cop
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 his	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 reckoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the dad						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	past	they	his = he					tree rules

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