Test 7 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…

Ha, the maid crying the whole way, what was her deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: maid, whole way · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: whole way, deal

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1052 «Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a handsome stranger» 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	nsubj
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 deal	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 deal	nmod:poss
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	the maid	the whole way and maid's deal					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	is a	past	the whole way and maid's deal	maid's deal					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 · ✓ the right answer

She can't climb trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climb	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 climb	advmod
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	She	trees					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 2

She's lost her shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoes	nmod:poss
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		She					tree rules

Option 3

She can't climb trees and she's worried the wolves will find them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climb	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 climb	advmod
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 worried	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 worried	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 worried	cop
9	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climb	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolves	det
11	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 find	aux
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 worried	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	She	trees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	is	present	she		worried property	tree rules
3	find	future	the wolves	trees = tree		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 4

She can't climb trees, so she's stuck if the wolves come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climb	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 climb	advmod
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climb	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuck	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 stuck	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stuck	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stuck	cop
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climb	parataxis
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wolves	det
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stuck	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	She	trees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	is	present	she		stuck property	tree rules
3	come a condition, not said to happen	present	the wolves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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