Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Brewery of Eggshells: a mother tes…

Bruv, why did she go to Llanidloes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: go · To what, where: Llanidloes

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Llanidloes	case
8	Llanidloes	llanidloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Bruv			Llanidloes		Bruv vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to llanidloe=Initial_Location

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

Because her neighbour sent for her and she needed the Wise Man's advice on the babies

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 sent	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neighbour	nmod:poss
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 needed	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needed	nsubj
9	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Man	det
11	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Man	amod
12	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 advice	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Man	case
14	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needed	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 babies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 babies	det
17	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	her neighbour					for her = she	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	need	past	neighbour	the Wise Man's advice		the babies			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To see the Wise Man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
4	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Man	amod
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the Wise Man					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

Option 3

For a cure for twins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 cure	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cure	det
3	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 twins	case
5	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cure	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To borrow a pot to boil some soup for the reapers in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 borrow	mark
2	borrow	borrow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pot	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrow	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 boil	mark
6	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 borrow	advcl
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 soup	det
8	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boil	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 reapers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 reapers	det
11	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boil	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boil	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	to-infinitive		a pot					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
2	boil	to-infinitive		some soup				for the reapers; in the field	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soup=Patient in field=Instrument

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