Test 11 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

What did the lass offer, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lass offer · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: lass offer

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 offer	det
4	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	compound
5	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 offer	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lass offer					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	the lass offer not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

to look after him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive					after him = he		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

to cook for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 cook	mark
2	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	to-infinitive						for him = he	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary

Option 3

to mend his coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 mend	mark
2	mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 coat	nmod:poss
4	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	to-infinitive		his coat					tree rules

Option 4

to marry him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 marry	mark
2	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	to-infinitive		him = he					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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