Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Becfola, part 20: a wolf chase and a ha…

Did the wolves just give up and go or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: give up, go

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support	the wolves						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	infinitive	the wolves not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Their leader told them to leave, since the lady was under protection from the hill

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leader	nmod:poss
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 protection	punct
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	13 protection	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 protection	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 protection	cop
12	under	under	ADP	_	13 protection	case
13	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 hill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hill	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 protection	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Their leader	them = they			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Their leader not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the lady		protection	from the hill	tree rules

Option 2

Their leader said to leave, so they all trotted off back into the woods

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leader	nmod:poss
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trotted	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 trotted	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trotted	nsubj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 trotted	advmod
10	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 trotted	compound:prt
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 trotted	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 woods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trotted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Their leader			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	to-infinitive	Their leader not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trot off	past	they	the woods	all property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination

Option 3

The leader called them back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leader	det
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 called	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call back speech: assert	past	the leader	them = they					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their leader said to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 leader	nmod:poss
2	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Their leader						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave	to-infinitive	Their leader not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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