Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

Hang on, what did the wise woman make him fetch first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, wise woman, him · What happens: hang on, make, fetch · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 make	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hang	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 fetch	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past · do-support	the wise woman	him = he		tree rules
3	fetch	infinitive	him = he not said here		first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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

the heart o' the thing he liked best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heart	det
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 best	nsubj
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 thing	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heart	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 liked	nsubj
8	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	heart	the thing not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme

Option 2

the liver of the pig he liked most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 liver	det
2	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liked	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pig	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liver	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	the liver of the pig	most					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot most=Theme

Option 3

the bones o' the cow he fancied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bones	det
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	6 cow	case
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 cow	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bones	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fancied	nsubj
8	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	he	the cow not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus

Option 4

his mam's heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mam	nmod:poss
2	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mam	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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