Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1:…

what's the deal with October and his English plough?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 887 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1: twelve months arrive by coach, and storks gossip about a lost swan-princess» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 October	case
6	October	October	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plough	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 plough	nmod:poss
9	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plough	amod
10	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with October and his English plough						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 a squire who sells fruit and brings a huge crate

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	4 squire	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sells	nsubj
6	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	acl:relcl
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sells	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brings	cc
9	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sells	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crate	det
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crate	amod
12	crate	crate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a squire	tree rules
2	sell	present	a squire	fruit	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
3	bring	present	a squire not said here	a huge crate	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crate=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He's a squire who farms and brings a huge load

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	4 squire	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 brings	nsubj
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brings	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 farms	cc
8	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 load	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 load	amod
11	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a squire					tree rules
2	bring	present	a squire	a huge load					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent load=Theme

Option 3

He's a squire with an English plough and cows

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	4 squire	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 plough	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plough	det
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plough	amod
8	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squire	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cows	cc
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plough	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a squire				with a English plough and cows	tree rules

Option 4

He's a squire who farms the whole moor and brings a huge load of barley and oats to the town every year

The tree, 23 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	4 squire	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squire	det
4	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 brings	nsubj
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brings	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 moor	amod
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brings	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brings	cc
11	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squire	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 load	det
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 load	amod
14	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brings	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 barley	case
16	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 load	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 oats	cc
18	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 barley	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 town	det
21	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brings	obl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brings	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a squire					tree rules
2	bring	present	a squire	a huge load of barley and oats		the town	year		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme to town=Destination

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