Test 4 · ★ · Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor…

did the Barmecide order the boy to bring water, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bring · To what, where: water

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 355 «Tales for Young Folks, The Barmecide Feast, part 15: poor Schacabac is treated to a pretend feast by a rich old man» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bring	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 order	det
3	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 order	compound
4	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obl:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bring	mark
8	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bring	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 bring	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · do-support		water					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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

Yeah, to bring some wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bring	mark
4	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 wine	det
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	to-infinitive		some wine					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wine=Theme

Option 2

Nah, to fetch a jug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fetch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fetch	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jug	det
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		a jug					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, mate, a basin of warm water so the guest could wash his hands

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 basin	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basin	det
6	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 basin	nmod
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 wash	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guest	det
12	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wash	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wash	aux
14	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mate	orphan
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	could	the guest	guest's hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mate, to wash hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wash	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Yeah	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wash	punct
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wash	mark
6	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		hands					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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