Test 13 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Why'd she fancy him, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: fancy · To what, where: him

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fancy	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fancy	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancy	nsubj
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancy	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fancy	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fancy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	would	she	him = he			then		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 folks say fools make bad husbands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 husbands	amod
7	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	cos folks						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	fools	bad husbands					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset husband=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos folks say fools make good husbands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 husbands	amod
7	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	cos folks						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	fools	good husbands					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset husband=Product

Option 3

cos she heard from her mam that fools make very good husbands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mam	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mam	nmod:poss
6	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 make	obj
8	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mam	acl:relcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 husbands	amod
12	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	cos	good husbands		cos's mam			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent husband=Topic from mam=Source
2	make	present	fools	cos's mam					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product

Option 4

cos folks say fools make good husbands if they work hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folks	amod
2	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 husbands	amod
7	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 work	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 work	nsubj
10	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	advcl
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	cos folks			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	present	fools	good husbands		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset husband=Product
3	work a condition, not said to happen	present	fools = fool		hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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