Test 12 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

Ah, be real, did the Carl wait for the boar to be cooked or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Carl · What happens: be, wait, cook

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 real	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Carl	det
8	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wait	nsubj
9	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	parataxis
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 boar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boar	det
12	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wait	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 cooked	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 cooked	aux:pass
15	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wait	advcl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 what	cc
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 cooked	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	real property	tree rules
2	wait	past · do-support	the Carl	for the boar	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cook	to-infinitive · passive	the Carl not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

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 ate it raw

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	it				raw property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

He left it on the grass

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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	it		the grass			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on grass=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He cooked it over the fire

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 cooked	nsubj
2	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cooked	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	He	it		the fire			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

He roasted it on a spit

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 roasted	nsubj
2	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 roasted	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 spit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spit	det
6	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past	He	it				on a spit	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient on spit=Instrument

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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