Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Did the ruffian leave them with any grub, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ruffian · What happens: leave · To what, where: them

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 252 «English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's wicked plot and the lost babes» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ruffian	det
3	ruffian	ruffian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	nsubj
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 grub	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 grub	det
8	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 leave	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	the ruffian	them = they				with any grub	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme what=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

He said he'd bring bread back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring back	would	he	bread					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 2

Just water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 water	advmod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

He promised cake and milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promised	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 milk	cc
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	He	cake and milk					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

Option 4

No, nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 nothing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

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