Test 13 · ★ · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…

so what's the deal with the goblin's gold mine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 deal	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 deal	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 mine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goblin	det
8	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mine	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 goblin	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mine	compound
11	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the deal				with the goblin's gold mine	tree rules

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

He's broke, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 broke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	cop
3	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					mate vocative; broke property	tree rules

Option 2

He has two sons looking for wives, and the mine is better than all his castles, innit

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sons	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 wives	case
7	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 better	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 better	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mine	det
11	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 better	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 better	cop
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 has	parataxis
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 castles	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 castles	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 castles	nmod:poss
17	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 better	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 innit	punct
19	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 castles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	two sons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	look	gerund	two sons not said here		for wives	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wife=Theme
3	is	present	the mine		than his castles and innit; good property	tree rules

Option 3

He keeps the mine for his sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mine	det
4	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sons	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sons	nmod:poss
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He	the mine				for his sons	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mine=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He has two sons looking for wives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sons	nummod
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sons	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 wives	case
7	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	two sons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	look	gerund	two sons not said here					for wives	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for wife=Theme

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