Test 5 · ★ · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

Was the Carl deadly at the building, or just a lazy gom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: building

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deadly	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deadly	det
3	Carl	Carl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 deadly	compound
4	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 building	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 building	det
7	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deadly	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gom	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 gom	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 gom	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 gom	det
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gom	amod
13	gom	gom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 building	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 deadly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				the building or a lazy gom		deadly property	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

Built a snug house in one load of timber brought down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Built	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 load	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 load	nummod
7	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Built	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 timber	case
9	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 load	nmod
10	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 timber	acl
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past		a snug house		one load of timber			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
2	bring down	participle	timber not said here	the hill					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hill=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Built a snug house in one load

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Built	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 load	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 load	nummod
7	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past		a snug house		one load			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 3

Carried logs in one trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 logs	amod
2	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trip	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 trip	nummod
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 logs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle							vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Raised a sturdy house quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raised	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Raised	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle		a sturdy house				quickly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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