Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Why'd everyone keep laughing at him, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: keep, laugh

This is test 3 · ★ 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 keep	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bruv	punct
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	everyone						tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	everyone not said here					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

cos he was always a total fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fool	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fool	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fool	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 fool	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fool	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fool	amod
7	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cos	a total fool				always property	tree rules

Option 2

cos he was dead daft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daft	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daft	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daft	amod
5	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				daft property	tree rules

Option 3

cos he tripped over his shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tripped	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tripped	nsubj
3	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 shoes	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shoes	nmod:poss
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tripped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	past	cos			cos's shoes			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoe=Trajectory

Option 4

cos he went and brought his mam up a hill in a sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brought	cc
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mam	nmod:poss
7	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sack	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sack	det
13	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	cos						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	cos not said here	cos's mam		a sack		up a hill	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mam=Theme

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