Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

Bruv, why'd she give the bag of groats away?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: give · To what, where: bag

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 236 «English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's chores, loses the groats to a robber, and the couple wins them 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 give	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 give	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bag	det
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 groats	case
10	groats	groat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bag	nmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	Bruv	the bag of groats				Bruv vocative; away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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 · ← Mova's choice

cos he was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nice	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				nice property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos the robber looked dead posh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	ccomp
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robber	det
3	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	infinitive	the robber not said here						tree rules
2	look	past	the robber					dead, posh property	tree rules

Option 3

cos he said it was rent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rent	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rent	aux:pass
6	rent	rend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	cos						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rend	past · passive		it					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

cos he was a dead gent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gent	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gent	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gent	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gent	amod
6	gent	gent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cos	a dead gent					tree rules

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