Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

What did she say she could do, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, do · To what, where: bruv · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	she						tree rules
2	do	could	she	bruv					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

sew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	imperative	you not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cook and clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 clean	cc
3	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cook	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	clean	infinitive	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

cook, sew and wash his clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sew	punct
3	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cook	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wash	cc
5	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cook	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clothes	nmod:poss
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sew	infinitive	you not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	wash	infinitive	you not said here	his clothes	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cook, scrub and mend his clouts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 scrub	punct
3	scrub	scrub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cook	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mend	cc
5	mend	mend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 cook	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clouts	nmod:poss
7	clouts	clout	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cook	imperative	you not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	scrub	infinitive	you not said here		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	mend	infinitive	you not said here	his clouts	tree rules
4	clout		his = he		nom clout «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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