Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jan and His Wife: Mally ruins Jan's c…

So Jan took the door off, why was that, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jan · What happens: take off, be · To what, where: door

This is test 7 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 innit	advmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 innit	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	Jan	the door					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	is	past	Jan not said here					innit 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

cos he needed a board to keep the pigs in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 board	det
5	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pigs	det
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	cos	a board					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot board=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	cos not said here	the pigs					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos it was their bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bed	cop
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bed	nmod:poss
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	it	their bed					tree rules

Option 3

cos it was for the pigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pigs	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pigs	cop
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 pigs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pigs	det
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	it					for the pigs	tree rules

Option 4

cos the wind had broken the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 broken	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	infinitive · perfect · passive		the wind					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient window=Result

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