Test 12 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and h…

What did the cook say about the kid, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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	5 say	obj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 kid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the cook					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present						about the kid	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Such dirty beggars' brats have no place in a proper house and should be whipped out

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beggars	amod
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beggars	amod
3	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brats	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 beggars	case
5	brats	brat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 place	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whipped	cc
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 whipped	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 whipped	aux:pass
16	whipped	whip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 have	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 whipped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Such dirty beggars's brats	no place		a proper house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	whip out	should · passive	Such dirty beggars's brats not said here						vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2

Beggars should stay in the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should	Beggars			the street			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location

Option 3

Such brats never learn manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brats	amod
2	brats	brat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	present	Such brats	manners					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Beggars' brats take to one another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 brats	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Beggars	case
3	brats	brat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 take	obj
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	Beggars's brats	one					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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