Test 3 · ★ · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…
Was the fawn knackered by the end of the run?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, knacker · To what, where: fawn
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fawn | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fawn | det |
| 3 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fawn | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knackered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 run | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 run | det |
| 10 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fawn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the fawn | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | knacker | participle | the fawn not said here | by the end of the run | 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
Yeah, it was knackered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 knackered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knackered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knackered | aux:pass |
| 5 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knacker | past · passive | it | tree rules |
Option 2
Not one bit, it was fresh and ready to run again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bit | nummod |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fresh | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fresh | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fresh | cop |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ready | cc |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fresh | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bit | one bit obl:unmarked; fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | bit not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | bit not said here | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Not at all, it was calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 all | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 calm | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 calm | cop |
| 7 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | calm property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Not one bit, it was fresh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bit | nummod |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fresh | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fresh | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fresh | cop |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bit | one bit obl:unmarked; fresh property | tree rules |
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