Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Children in the Wood: the uncle's…

Did the uncle's farm do well after that, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: farm

This is test 9 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 uncle	det
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 farm	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 uncle	case
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	conj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 do	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	1 Did	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the uncle's farm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality
2	do	present					after that	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Fields flooded, horses sold, bust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flooded	nsubj
2	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 horses	punct
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flooded	obl
5	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 horses	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bust	punct
7	bust	bu	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 flooded	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	past	Fields	horses					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sell	participle		horses not said here					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Crops failed, cattle sold, broke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 failed	nsubj
2	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sold	punct
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sold	nsubj
5	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 failed	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 broke	punct
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 failed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	fail	past	Crops	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sell	past	cattle	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	break	past	Crops not said here	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Barns burnt, cattle died, skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	nsubj
2	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Barns	acl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cattle	punct
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Barns	conj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 skint	punct
7	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 died	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	participle		Barns and cattle not said here					tree rules
2	die	past	Barns and cattle						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Barns burnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Barns	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	participle		Barns not said here					tree rules

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